The Red and the Black Glossary

by Stendhal

The Red and the Black Glossary

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Elucidate

Interpret, clarify

Caprice

Impulse, humour

Obsequious

Cringing, grovelling

Annihilation

Demolition, destruction

Heretic

Agnostic, dissenter

Propagate

Cultivate, breed

Atrocity

Act of brutality

Visceral

Inward, emotional

Leniently

With mercy, moderately

Magnanimous

Liberal, bountiful

Conjectural

Abstract, speculative

Dogmatic

Adamant, opinionated

Perversity

Stubbornness, irrationality

Ignominious

Shameful, embarrassing

Keen

Sharp, intense

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