Beauty and Sadness Glossary

by Yasunari Kawabata

Beauty and Sadness Glossary

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To ebb

to retreat

To annihilate

to destroy something completely

Tempest

an extremely violent storm

Limpid

clean and simple

Brackish

(of food) salty

To mutter

to say something in a low voice, to mumble

To countermand

to overturn an order so a new one can be created

Incongruously

strangely

Ague

fever caused by an infectious disease

Pompous

term used to describe a person who is extremely arrogant

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