The Benefits of Being an Octopus Glossary

by Ann Braden

The Benefits of Being an Octopus Glossary

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Beguiled

Mesmerized, attracted

Concomitant

Linked, connected

Contrite

Sorry, regretful

Inexorable

Steady, relentless

Denigrate

Defame, slander

Paucity

Poverty, famine

Surfeit

Oversupply, overdose

Plethora

Abundance, excess

Defunct

Gone, departed

Congruity

Point of agreement

Peevish

Moody, miserable

Foible

Defect, fault

Expiate

Offset, redeem

Scantily

Insufficiently

Hiatus

Pause, rest

Lurid

Vivid, bright

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