The World According to Garp Glossary

The World According to Garp Glossary

Salvage

Save something from being destroyed

Terminal

Seriously ill, either mentally or physically

Resent

To be deeply annoyed with something or someone

Laboured

Put a lot of effort into something in order to achieve a goal

Agony

Intense emotional pain and regret

Vivid

Clear and easy to understand

Posession

Control and power

Indulgent

Selfish, to the point where a person will completely ignore others

Flair

The ability to do something very well

Lavished

Freely given something out, for example, to lavish attention onto someone

Obligations

Rules that a person is expected to follow

Absentee

A person who has gone missing

Peter out

To end abruplty and weakly

Nihilism

A philosophical movement that denies meaning, purpose and values and believes that existence has no meaning beyond the empty meaning which humans give to it

Maim

To injure

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