The Five-Forty-Eight

The Five-Forty-Eight Glossary

Loathing

Intense dislike

Bypass

To go around

Restrained

Holding back an emotion or feeling

Morbid

Unhealthy interest in disturbing and unpleasant subjects

Rancid

Putrid smell

Deprivation

Lacking in something

Intermittent

Irregular

Diffidence

Modesty or shyness resulting from a lack of self-confidence

Sumptuary

Relating to or denoting laws that limit private expenditure on food and personal items

Scrupulous

Careful, thorough, and extremely attentive to details

Entreaties

Earnest or humble requests

Ineradicable

Unable to be destroyed or removed

Predicament

A difficult, unpleasant, or embarrassing situation

Clairvoyant

A person who claims to have a supernatural ability to perceive events in the future or beyond normal sensory contact

Ordure

Excrement; dung

Abutments

Structures built to support the lateral pressure of an arch or span, e.g., at the ends of a bridge

Culvert

A tunnel carrying a stream or open drain under a road or railway