Vanishing Girls Glossary

by Lisa Regan

Vanishing Girls Glossary

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Despodency

Melancholy, discouragement

Estrangement

Isolation, alienation

Delirious

Irrational, incoherent

Feigning

Pretending, bluffing

Lucrative

Profitable, rewarding

Perseverance

Endurance, tenacity

Quaint

Picturesque, fanciful

Dandified

Consciously sophisticated about appearance

Irascible

Quick tempered, irritable

Surreptitious

Furtive, secretive

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