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::: spatial - relating to space
::: verisimilitude - appearance of truth; quality of appearing to be true or real; likelihood; Ex. verisimilitude of her performance as Lady Macbeth
::: coeval - living at the same time as; existing during the same period of time; contemporary; of the same age
::: dross - waste matter; worthless impurities
::: musty - stale (in odor or taste); spoiled by age; CF. moist
::: hireling - one who serves for hire (usually used contemptuously); one who works solely for compensation; Ex. hireling politician
::: gild - cover with a thin layer of gold
::: lout - clumsy person; ADJ. loutish; CF. from countrysides ?
::: palatable - agreeable; pleasing to the taste
::: nostalgia - homesickness; longing for the past; Ex. nostalgia for the clothes of 1920s; ADJ. nostalgic