An Essay Upon Projects Glossary

by Daniel Defoe

An Essay Upon Projects Glossary

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quarrel

argument

faux pas

a blunder

strain

to make great effort

assert

to state

supplement

something in addition

infallibility

inability to be wrong.

render

to cause

impracticable

unsuitable

handicraft

decorative domestic objects

chronology

arrangement of events in the order of their occurrence.

afforded

to provide

banter

to joke

peculiar

strange

senseless

foolish

wicked

evil

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