vocabs p.146-223

repugnance: extreme dislike or aversion. "Perhaps every accidental cluster of people has a short period of grace, in between the initial shyness and prejudice on the on ehand and eventual repugnance and betrayal on the other." page 146

magicked: the practice of using charms, spells, or rituals to attempt to produce supernatural effects or control events in nature. "I hate that Grommetik thing," said Nessarose. "However does it work, anyway? Is it clockwork or is it magicked, or some combination of the two?" page 147

lacquered: A glossy, resinous material, such as the exudation of the lacquer tree, used as a surface coating. "Were they silver?-or blue?-or now red?-lacquered with a candy shell brilliance of polish?" page 149

gumption: Boldness of enterprise; initiative or aggressiveness. someone who has guts or spunk. "He requires a few generals. In the long run. Some people with managing skills. Some people with gumption." page 158

hasp: A metal fastener with a hinged slotted part that fits over a staple and is secured by a pin, bolt, or padlock. "He pointed to a huge oak door, barred with two monstrous timbers in iron hasps." page 165

carcass: Remains from which the substance or character is gone. "The woman watched the carriage pass, and her face showed a yearning to be on it, to be dead, to be anywhere else other than on this carcass of a property." page 169

pratfalling: A fall on the buttocks. "She gave up then, and he fell stupidly against the unplastered brick wall of the stairwell, like a pratfalling twit in a vaudeville hour." page 183

ale: A fermented alcoholic beverage containing malt and hops, similar to but heavier than beer. "She took a little ale in a pipkin, left the rest for him." page 185

novice: A person new to a field or activity; a beginner. "What in the world do you know about wickedness? You're a bit player in this network of renegades, aren't you? You're a novice." page 197

culpability: Deserving of blame or censure as being wrong, evil, improper, or injurious. "If you suppress the idea of personhood then you suppress the notion of individual culpability." page 199

capacious: Capable of containing a large quantity; spacious or roomy. "In display windows, papier-mache figures evoked the good Fairy Queen Lurline in her winged chariot, and her assistant, the minor fairy Preenella, who stewed gift-wrapped delights from her capacious magic basket." page 207

genteel: Refined in manner; well-bred and polite. "Inside the glass doors, house management was busy lining up stanchions and stringing velvet ropes to promote a genteel entry into the hall." page 217

voided: Having the central area cut out or left vacant, leaving an outline or narrow border. "Voided, washed down, and at least loosely done up again, he tried to coax Malky with a bowl of milk." page 219

miasma: A poisonous atmosphere or influence "She dragged the forlorn thing down toward the winter salon, where the old retired biddies lived out their lives in a haze of amnesia and the discreetly placed clumps of marginium plants, whose sweet miasma helped mask the odors of the old and incontinent." page 221

sepal: One of the separate, usually green parts forming the calyx of a flower. "She could only keep Elphaba's hands tightly clutched within her own, as a sepal sockets the furls of young petal." page 222


How do you feel about the relationship between Elphaba and Fiyero? What do you predict will happen to the two of them in the future?



-Monica Sharma :]