Goodbye, Columbus : And Five Short Stories Glossary

by Philip Roth

Goodbye, Columbus : And Five Short Stories Glossary

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fizzle

die out

threadbare

well worn

shvartze

Yiddish word to describe Africans

mumbling

to speak indistinctly

undernourished

to have insufficient food

dramatized

to exaggerate

hideous

to be extremely ugly

unnerved

to unsettle

coldness

hostility

veiled

concealed

anti-Semitism

prejudice against Jews.

diaphragm

contraceptive cap

froth

trivia

whipped

to take out quickly

elated

extreme happiness

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