The Glass Hotel Glossary

The Glass Hotel Glossary

Plummeting

Dropping, Plunging, Going down (Adjective).

Exuberance

Cheerfulness, Liveliness, Ebullience (Noun).

Annihilate

Destroy, Abolish, Exterminate (Verb).

Gaunt

Haggard, Skeletal, Emaciated (Adjective).

Disastrous

Tragic, Devastating, Catastrophic (Adjective).

Claustrophobic

One who feels uncomfortable in enclosed rooms (Adjective).

Martingale

A term for Probability Theory for a particular variable sequence (Noun).

Therapeutic

Healing, Curative, Medicinal, Remedial (Adjective).

Malfunction

Crash, Fail, Break down (Verb).

Discordant

Disagreeing, Conflicting (Adjective).

Suburbia

Outskirts of a city (Noun).

Proselytize

Convert, Evangelize (Verb).

Teetotaler

One who never drinks alcohol, an Abstainer (Noun).

Intercede

Intervene, Step in (Verb).

Oblivious

Unaware, Unmindful, Heedless (Adjective).

Retrospect

Looking back, Hindsight, Reminiscence (Noun).

Amicable

Friendly, Cordial (Adjective).

Indelible

Ineffaceable, Undoable, Indestructible (Adjective).

Squalid

Dirty, Filthy, Grimy, Mucky (Adjective).

Vulnerable

Unsafe, Endangered, At-risk (Adjective).

Doppelganger

Double, Counterpart, Alter ego (Noun).

Probation

Trial period, Apprenticeship, Traineeship (Noun).

Enormous

Huge, Gigantic, Colossal (Adjective).

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