Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen Glossary

by Fay Weldon

Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen Glossary

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Abjured

Formally rejected

Unquenchable

Incapable of being quelled

Cogent

Powerfully persuasive

Denigrate

Attacking someone's reputation

Pernicious

Baleful, harmful

Requisite

Vital, compulsory

Confutation

Disproof

Ostentatious

Pretentious, fancy

Pithy

Full of meaning

Trite

Repeated frequently

Repugnant

Vile, abhorrent

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