Edgar Huntly: Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker

Edgar Huntly: Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker Glossary

asperity

roughness, unevenness

commodious

spacious

contumely

harsh language or treatment

efficacious

producing the desired result

extirpating

destroying, uprooting

flatigious

wasteful, useless, stupid

inculcating

teaching

languor

weakness of body or mind

nefarious

evil

obdurate

stubborn, unyielding

perturbations

the tumult of one's thoughts

probity

upright and moral behavior

rancour

bitter ill-will

refractory

not easily controlled, stubborn

ruminated

thought deeply about

sanguinary

bloody

taciturnity

the state of not desiring to talk

temerity

boldness

torpor

extreme mental or physical inactivity; strong listlessness

untinctured

unaffected