The Dream of a Ridiculous Man Glossary

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Dream of a Ridiculous Man Glossary

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Written by Anastasia Melnyk

to induce

to prompt, to force

conviction

persuasion, belief

to have an inkling of

to suspect

precise

exact

menacing

threatening, dangerous

tattered

ragged

fathomless

immeasurable, bottomless

to mount up

to go up

abject

mean, terrible, horrible

vexed

angry

nothingness

non-existence, insignificance, unimportance

contemptible

not deserving respect

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