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oblige; custom obliged him p.3
Alt. use: "I am much obliged" |
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a formal way to say thank you |
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| to have a hard head; to be hard-headed p. 3 |
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a state of affairs p.4
" a shocking state of affairs" or
"a sorry state of affairs" |
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a figment p.4
a figment of your imagintion |
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| a thing believed to be real, but exists only in our imagination |
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to grasp;
incapable of grasing p. 4 |
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| to understand or comprehend |
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portents p. 5
portents in stars |
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| a sign or warning that something momentous (important) or calamitous (terrible) is likely to happen |
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makes no sense
ridiculous; |
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| rub someone the wrong way p. 5 |
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| to irritate someone, to annoy someone |
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to decline p. 5
to decine the honor
What honor is the author talking about? |
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| full of contempt or disdain, [to look down on someone] |
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| to hold tightly (jaw, fist, teeth) |
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| slowly decaying (falling apart) |
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| to see (quickly, for a short bit) |
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| to wrinkel and contract ( get smaller) due to lackb o moisture |
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to plunge p. 11
He plunged headlong up the steps. |
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| to move suddenly and uncontrollably |
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| having a harmful effect, especially in a gradual way |
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