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Terms
undefined, object
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- parvenu
- new wealthy upstart
- pulchritude
- beauty
- contemporaneity
- living or occuring during the same period of time;contemporary
- chicanery
- deception by means of guile
- chauvinist
- someone prejudiced in favor of a group to which he or she belongs
- equivocation
- falsification by means of vague or ambiguous language
- iteration
- the act of repeating; a repetition
- pyrexia
- fever
- dilettante
- someone with an amateurish and superficial interest in a topic
- idiom
- As the narrator states in the prologue, "the color of a dog running away" is "an idiom referring to something of an indeterminate or vague and shadowy appearance, perhaps suggesting a fugitive reality."