"The Woman Question" and Other Short Writings Glossary

by Stephen Leacock

"The Woman Question" and Other Short Writings Glossary

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defiant

showing bold resistance or disobedience

digression

straying from the main point or idea of something

industrious

hardworking

house breaker

someone who breaks into and enters a house, usually to steal

dispossessed

deprived of land, property, rights, power, etc.

cabriolet

a light, two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage

antagonism

hostility or aggressive opposition

emancipate

to free (someone); to liberate

infinitesimal

extremely small

tariff

tax on imported goods

quietism

Christian belief in the absence of free will; passive acceptance of situations without attempts to change them

congregation

a group of people who gather together for religious worship

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