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burnished: to make smooth or glossy by or as if by rubbing; polish. "out of the shadows of the reception room came a small tiktok thing, about three feet high, made of burnished bronze, with an identifying plate screwed onto its front." - page 73

callousness: Emotionally hardened; unfeeling. "By callousness, of course, Pfannee meant greenness." - page 74

pantomime: A play, dance, or other theatrical performance characterized by such wordless storytelling. "It was the kind of super-feminine things boys in a pantomime wore when they pretended to be girls." - page 78

brutes: A brutal, crude, or insensitive person. "Well, whatever did those old brutes think about evil, then?" - page 80

cerise: A deep to vivid purplish red. "Galinda brought out her cerise satin gown with the matching shawl and slippers and an heirloom Gilikinese fan, painted with a pattern of ferns and pfenix." - page 82

juxtaposing: To place side by side, especially for comparison or contrast. "Irony, some say, is the art of juxtaposing incongruous parts." - page 90

incongruous: Not in keeping with what is correct, proper, or logical; inappropriate. "Irony, some say, is the art of juxtaposing incongruous parts."

terricolous: Living on or in the ground. "The animals were terricolous and thus of a lower order than Lurline and her retinue." - page 114

retinue: The retainers or attendants accompanying a high-ranking person. "The animals were terricolous and thus of a lower order than Lurline and her retinue." - page 114

cumbersome: Troublesome or onerous. "She didn't look both ways as she lunged across Railway Square and was nearly mowed down by an old Ox on a cumbersome tricycle." - page 127

eminence: A position of great distinction or superiority. "Elphaba is the Thropp Third Descending. She'll be the Eminence one day." - page 131

apparitions: A ghostly figure or a sudden or unusual sight. "Spells, changings, apparitions? It's all entertainment," said Elphaba. "It's theatre."

effervescence: To escape from a liquid as bubbles; bubble up. "They could all see a small puff of dust, like an effervescence of talcum powder, jostle itself in a swimming plume in the air above the neck of the bottle." - page 140

preamble: A preliminary statement, like an the introduction to a formal document that serves to explain its purpose. "Then the class watched as Doctor Nikdik finished his inaudible preamble and beckoned a student to open the same door at the side of the stage that Fiyero had stmbled through the previous week." - page 144



So guys, what do you predict will happen between Galinda, Ephaba and Boq? Will they become friends? And do you think Galinda will ever accept Elphaba as a person?



-MONICA SHARMA :]