I Am No One You Know: Stories Glossary

I Am No One You Know: Stories Glossary

Magnanimous

generous

a settee

a long soft chair for two or three people

Toots

a baby, a teasing nickname for a girl or a woman

Dandy

excellent

gal

a girl or a woman

affidavit

a legal document containing a written promise that something is true

Guernsey

a brown and white cow that produces milk

Smart aleck

self-assertive

Indiscernible

impossible to see or hear clearly

Corroborate

to offer direct support for a claim or idea

Confinement

imprisonment

Effervescence

vivacity

Gnomic

clever but difficult to understand

pretext

reason

Circumlocution

the use of too many words

A cul-de-sac

a dead end

Poignancy

sadness

Perpetuity

forever

myriad

an extremely large number of something

receptacle

a container

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