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Chekhov 40 stories pp. 262-345

In the Horsecart, On Love, The Lady with the Pet Dog, The Bishop, The Bride
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  1. unfathomable
    impossible to come to understand
  2. excise
    remove by cutting
  3. tannery
    workplace where skins and hides are tanned
  4. rut
    a groove or furrow
  5. gait
    an animal's manner of moving
  6. gaunt
    very thin, especially from disease or hunger or cold
  7. plodding
    (of movement) slow and laborious
  8. swill down
    drink large quantities of
  9. mutton
    meat from a mature domestic sheep
  10. devout
    deeply religious
  11. avocation
    an auxiliary activity
  12. assizes
    the county courts of England
  13. dowdy
    lacking in stylishness or taste
  14. liaison
    a means of communication between groups
  15. wag
    a movement from side to side
  16. disconcerting
    causing an emotional disturbance
  17. flunky
    an underling of unquestioning obedience
  18. douse
    wet thoroughly
  19. coxcomb
    the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds
  20. rabble
    a disorderly crowd of people
  21. strapping
    muscular and heavily built
  22. offertory
    the offerings of the congregation at a religious service
  23. caw
    utter a cry, characteristic of crows, rooks, or ravens
  24. insipid
    lacking interest or significance or impact
  25. taciturn
    habitually reserved and uncommunicative
  26. suffragan bishop
    an assistant or subordinate bishop of a diocese
  27. splutter
    spit up in an explosive manner
  28. stench
    a distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant
  29. bream
    any of numerous marine percoid fishes especially (but not exclusively) of the family Sparidae
  30. squat
    sit on one's heels
  31. forger
    someone who makes copies illegally
  32. embezzler
    someone who violates a trust by taking for his own use
  33. clamorous
    conspicuously and offensively loud
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