Destitution
"The glamour of youth enveloped his particolored rags, his destitution, his loneliness, the essential desolations of his future wanderings (page 79)."
-A state of poverty,
Pensive
"-with spears in their hands, with bows, with shields, with wild glances and savage movements, were poured into the clearing by the dark- faced and pensive forest (page 85)."
-Reflective or thoughtful.
Fecund
"And in the hush that had fallen suddenly upon the whole sorrowful land, the immense wilderness, the colossal body of the fecund and mysterious life seemed to look at her, pensive, as though it had been looking at the image of its own tenebrous and passionate soul (page 88)."
-Rich in production amount or fruitful.
Odious
"-the moral shock I received, as if something altogether monstrous, intolerable to thought and odious to the soul, had been thrust upon me unexpectedly (page 93)."
-Deserving of hatred or loathing.
Drubbing
"I fancy I had some vague notion of falling upon him and giving him a drubbing (page 94)."
-A severe beating or punishing.
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