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Elizabeth and Hazel
Term | Definition |
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Commemoration | to serve as a memorial of. |
Reconciliation | to cause to become friendly again |
Bitter | jealous; upset |
Rapprochement | the establishment of or a state of having cordial relations. |
Inconsistencies | situation in which two statements are different and both cannot be true |
incredulously | being unable or unwilling to believe something |
hick | an uneducated person |
articulate | an educated person |
coaxed | to be convinced or persuaded |
preside | to be in charge of; host |
remorseful | sorry |
pondered | thought about carefully |
psychology | the scientific study of the human mind and behavior |
subordinating | making less important then |
scouted | search for |
overstated | made something seem better or more important than it is |
naive | lacking experience, information or judgement |
sentamentality | an act or feeling based on emotion rather then reason, often related to nostalgia for the past |
vigilance | careful attention given to what is happening in order to spot danger |
fissure | crack tear or break |
pretenses | way of behaving that is meant to make people believe something that isn't true |
dissertation | a paper researched and written by a student working to earn a doctoral degree |
caveat | warning |
resentment | bitterness; feeling of anger because something you think is unfair happened to you |