No-No Boy Glossary

No-No Boy Glossary

Incredulous

Disbelieving

Redemption

Saving oneself from evil

Demote

Move to a lower rank

Pensive

Being deep in thought

Alignment

Straightened position

Disconcerting

Making someone feel uncomfortable

Endurance

Withstanding something

Remote

Isolated from civilisation

approbation

An endorsement of praise or commendation.

timorousness

A fearfu and anxious manner of timidity.

ostentatiously

Exceedingly flashy and flamboyant.

swarthy

With dark complexion, often within the context of toiling in the sun laboriously for hours rather than being born with a naturally dark pigmentation.

plenitude

An bounteousy rich overabundance.

enmity

A deep-seated and prolong sense of hatred or rancor based on past experiences with the object of the enmity.

ostensibly

Presumably, evidence or apparently.

athwart

At cross purposes to.

sporadically

Happening only occasionally and at irregular intervals.

cessation

The ending or termination of something.

mollify

To make peace between argumentative elements; to act diplomatically.

gregarious

Characterizing a robust personality given to extraverted shows of fellowship and loud conversation.

resplendent

Exceptionally splendid; a dazzing and admirable display.

patrician

Possessing qualities of alleged good breeding and aristrocratic upbringing.

haggard

Looking especially fatigued and prematurely aged.

cocksure

Cavailer, pompous and overly confident to an especially irritating degree.

antiquated

Old, outdated, outmoded and useless.

rectify

To put right something that has gone terribly wrong.

deluded

Deceived and misled.

whet

To induce, excite or stimulate.

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