The Picture of Dorian Gray: vocabulary 1

tremulous skakig/quivering (shaky)

pallid blek/abnormally pale (lacking healthy skin color)

monotonous enformig, entonig/lacking variety and boring

comely vacker/attractive

languid slö/slow (lacking energy or relaxed)

vulgar ohyfsad/crude (showing of bad taste)

intellectual intellektuell/relating to the use of intelligence

hideous fruktansvärd/extremely ugly, offensive, and/or frightening

indifferent oberörd/without interest

cynical cynisk/someone who expects the worst

perplexed förvirrad/confused

tedious tråkig/boring

conscience samvete

inevitable oundviklig/certain to happen

listless apatisk/lacking energy and normal enthusiasm

detest avsky/dislike intensely

prejudice fördom/unreasonable and unfair belief or feeling

principle princip/belief

gravity alvar/seriousness or importance (weightiness)

idolatry avgudadyrkan/the worship of an object as though it were a god

reproach tillrättavisning/criticize and express disappointment

dominate dominera/ control (were much more powerful than)

trivial oviktig/unimportant

Venetian venetiansk/she has a collection of Venetian glass.

Narcissus is a figure from Greek mythology who was so impossibly handsome that he fell in love with his own image reflected in a pool of water.

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