The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest Glossary

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest Glossary

Affidavit

sworn statement

Antagonism

hatred

Brewing

put together

Contradict

disagree with

Contrive

scheme

Conviction

certainty

Correspondence

communication

Crumpled

wrinkled

Dilemma

difficult choice or situation

Dysfunctional

something not working normally

Exasperation

frustration

Exceptionally

extraordinarily

Excruciatingly

painfully

Falsification

forgery

Fiddle

fraud

Flipped

turn over

Gigabytes

unit of information which is unqual to one thousand million bytes

Guardianship

custody

Incompetent

useless

Incorporated

take in

Indefinite

unclear

Intention

purpose

Interpretation

understanding

Invariably

always

Kronor

basic monetary unit of Sweden

Locksmith

someone who makes and repair locks

Maintenance

repairs department

Manuscript

an author's unpublished text work

Negotiations

a discussion to reach to an agreement

Outrageous

offensive

Overruns

spread over

Paranoid

suspicious

Parlance

a common manner of speaking especially among those who have a similar type of job

Promiscuity

lack of sexual discrimination

Psychoactive drugs

A chemical substance that affects central nervous system. It alters brain functions which leads to temporary change in mood, consciousness and behavior.

Reckoned

guessed

Remuneration

compensation

Sanctioned

authorized

Sceptical

unconvinced

Schizophrenic

It is a mental disorder which leads to delusions, loss of personality, psychosis, bizarre behavior, social withdrawal and confusion

Scrutinized

analysed

Sedated

calm someone by giving them drugs

Slammer

prison

Snuff

powdered tobacco

Subjected

put through

Tomography

a technique of showing the representation of a cross section of a solid object, usually human body, by using ultrasound or x-ray

Unconscious

unaware of surroundings or not awake

Unquenchable

greedy

Violation

abuse

Vouchsafed

to condescendingly give something to someone

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