Vocab List "Who's Who in literature"
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Don Juan | A man who is an obsessive seducer of women. |
| Friday | A dependable, hardworking helper. |
| lilliputian | n. A very small person or being. adj. 1. Very small; diminutive. 2. Trivial; pretty. |
| lothario | Like Don Juan, another seducer of women. |
| malapropism | Ludicrous misuse of a word, especially by confusion with one of similar sound. |
| milquetoast | One who has a meek, timid, unassertive nature; a wimp. |
| Pollyanna | A person regarded as being foolishly or blindly optimistic. |
| quixotic | Caught up in the romance of noble deeds and the pursuit of unreachable goals; idealistic but impractical. |
| Svengali | A person who controls others by mysterious means and with evil intent. |
| yahoo | A person regarded as crude or brutish; a boor. |
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