The Last Quentista Glossary

by Donna Barba Higuera

The Last Quentista Glossary

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Prercolate

Drip, filter

Petite

Diminutive, tiny

Circumvent

Overcome, dodge

Contentious

Unsure, disputable

Fastidious

Hypercritical, scrupulous

Obliquely

Indirectly, diagonally

Acclivity

Upward slope

Languid

Unenergetic, sluggish

Famished

Starved, undernourished

Edifice

Assembly, structure

Galvanized

Startled, shocked

Disdain

Scorn, contempt

Poignancy

Sadness, pathos

Expedited

Accelerated, rushed

Visage

Expression, countenance

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