Bread and Wine Glossary

by Ignazio Silone

Bread and Wine Glossary

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Despodency

Melancholy, discouragement

Calamity

Misfortune, affliction, disaster

Futility

Worthlessness, meaningless

Chinking

Light ringing

Felicitousness

Well-chosen, fitting, appropriate

Abundant

Ample, generous, prolific

Sanguine

Confident, optimistic

Stultified

Hampered, thwarted, numbed

Alleviation

Removing a negative effect

Abject

Downcast, sordid

Calumniator

Defamer, slanderer

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