The School for Wives Glossary

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Beseeching

Exhorting, begging

Inimically

In a harmful way

Protruded

Stood out, prominent

Unobtrusive

Demure, mousy

Purgatory

Place of purification

Appalling

Dire, horrifying

Obstinately

In a contrary way, willfully

Interminable

Overlong, endless

Platitude

Common and overused saying, banality

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