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English: Supplementary/Story: A Dilemma - by Silas Weir Mitchell : Glossary

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ingenious (adj.) - clever, original and inventive

 

mania (n) - an extensive, persistent desire, an obsession

 

malicious (adj.) - spiteful, intended to harm or upset someone

 

queer (adj.) - strange, odd appalled (adj.) - horrified, shocked

 

oddity (n) - the quality being strange or peculiar

 

closet (n) - cupboard

 

incredible (adj.) - impossible to believe

 

contrive (v) - cook up, hatch a plan by deliberate use of skills

 

despotic (adj.) - tyrannical, autocratic avarice (n) - extreme greed for wealth jest (n) - a joke

 

vivisection (n) - a surgery conducted on a living organism for experimental purposes.

 

 

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