Glass Menagerie Vocab
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- fiasco
- noun; a complete failure
- enchanted
- adj/verb; attracted and delighted; bewitched
- emissary
- noun; an agent sent on a mission to represent another
- martyred
- adj; to look like one who has endured great suffering
- insolence
- noun; disrespectfully arrogant, impertinent behavoir
- supercilious
- adj; feeling or showing haughty disdain or contempt
- listless
- adj; lacking energy or enthusiasm
- obsession
- noun; a compulsive preoccupation with a fixed idea
- implacable
- adj; impossible to reconcile or appease
- sinister
- adj; suggesting or threatening evil; ominous
- indolently
- adv; disinclined to work; lazy
- archetype
- noun; an ideal or example of a type
- turgid
- adj; swollen or distended, as from fluid
- beaux
- noun; plural of beau; men who court women
- paragon
- noun; a model of excellence or perfection
- discreet
- adj; prudent, careful, wise
- motley
- adj; having elements of great variety
- unobtrusive
- adj; not standing out in any way
- quaint
- adj; odd, especially in an old-fashioned way; unfamiliar or unusual
- eloquent
- adj; marked by fluent, persuasive discourse; vividly or movingly expressive
- novelty
- noun; newness; the quality of being new
- demurely
- adv. modest and reserved in manner
- peculiar
- adj; unusual, odd, eccentric
- inquisition
- noun; an investigation, such as an inquest
- vestige
- noun; a visible trace, evidence, or sign of something that no longer exists
- pinioned
- adj/verb; to be restrained or immobilized, to be fixed in one place
- aghast
- adj; to be struck by terror or amazement
- spinster
- noun; a woman who is single beyond the usual marrying age
- specter
- noun; a ghostly apparition, a haunting or disturbing prospect
- beleaguered
- adj; harassed by; surrounded by