Fyodor Dostoevsky: The Idiot

Donna Marino (United States of America)
Dostoyevsky is widely recognized as one of the greatest and most influential writers of all time, and "The Idiot" is an awesome read.
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  1. physiognomy
    the human face
  2. pallor
    an unnatural lack of color in the skin
  3. epileptic
    a person who has a common seizure disorder
  4. Waugh
    English author of satirical novels (1903-1966)
  5. interlocutor
    a person who takes part in a conversation
  6. gratis
    costing nothing
  7. alacrity
    liveliness and eagerness
  8. bosh
    pretentious or silly talk or writing
  9. pomaded
    (of hair) groomed with pomade
  10. copeck
    100 kopecks equal 1 ruble in Russia
  11. sagacious
    acutely insightful and wise
  12. liveried
    wearing livery
  13. cognizance
    the state or act of having knowledge of
  14. genteel
    marked by refinement in taste and manners
  15. suffused
  16. conciliate
    gain the good will of or cause to be more favorably inclined
  17. gentry
    people having high social status or power in a society
  18. envenom
    add poison to
    actual word was 'envenomed'.
  19. ingratiate
    gain favor with somebody by deliberate efforts
  20. capricious
    determined by chance or impulse rather than by necessity
  21. incontrovertible
    impossible to deny or disprove
  22. dissonant
    harmonically unresolved
  23. scat
    flee; take to one's heels; cut and run
  24. fortnight
    a period of fourteen consecutive days
  25. petulance
    an irritable feeling
  26. naivete
    lack of sophistication or worldliness
  27. deign
    do something that one considers to be below one's dignity
    The actual word was 'deigned'.
  28. impervious
    not admitting of passage or capable of being affected
  29. hussar
    a member of a European light cavalry unit
  30. ineradicable
    not able to be destroyed or rooted out
  31. rouble
    the basic unit of money in Russia
  32. indemnification
    compensation for loss or damage or for trouble and annoyance
  33. equanimity
    steadiness of mind under stress
  34. draggled
    limp and soiled as if dragged in the mud
  35. pernicious
    exceedingly harmful
  36. sinecure
    a job that involves minimal duties
  37. nonentity
    a person of no influence
  38. infra
    (in writing) see below
  39. portmanteau
    a large travelling bag made of stiff leather
  40. incredulous
    not disposed or willing to believe; unbelieving
  41. citadel
    a stronghold for shelter during a battle
  42. vouchsafe
    grant in a condescending manner
  43. prandial
    of or relating to a meal
  44. vivacity
    high spirits and animation
  45. morose
    showing a brooding ill humor
  46. invective
    abusive language used to express blame or censure
  47. disconcerted
    having self-possession upset; thrown into confusion
  48. candour
    the quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech
  49. drollery
    a comic incident or series of incidents
  50. fraught
    filled with or attended with
  51. ensign
    a person who holds a commissioned rank in the U.S. Navy
  52. penurious
    excessively unwilling to spend
  53. cussedness
    meanspirited disagreeable contrariness
  54. pillory
    a wooden instrument of punishment on a post
  55. dissolute
    unrestrained by convention or morality
  56. peroration
    the concluding section of a rhetorical address
  57. ingratiating
    capable of winning favor
  58. divan
    a long backless sofa, usually with pillows
Created on 三月 24, 2009 (updated 三月 30, 2009)

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