Glossary - A Dilemma | by Silas Weir Mitchell | Supplementary/Story
Glossary
ingenious (adj.) - clever, original and inventive
mania (n) - an extensive, persistent desire, an obsession
malicious (adj.) - spiteful, intended to harm or upset someone
queer (adj.) - strange, odd
appalled (adj.) - horrified, shocked
oddity (n) - the quality being strange or peculiar
closet (n) - cupboard
incredible (adj.) - impossible to believe
contrive (v) - cook up, hatch a plan by deliberate use of skills
despotic (adj.) - tyrannical, autocratic
avarice (n) - extreme greed for wealth
jest (n) - a joke
vivisection (n) - a surgery conducted on a living organism for experimental purposes.