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The Glass Menagerie Vocab
List One
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English
11th Grade
04/22/2015

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Archetype (n.)
Definition
something that serves as the model or basis for copies.
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Beaux (n.)
Definition
boyfriends; lovers of young women.
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Beleaguered (adj.)
Definition
surrounded or harassed by.
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Brood (v.)
Definition
to think a lot about something in an unhappy way.
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Confiscate (v.)
Definition
to seize or take temporary custody of as security by legal means.
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Conglomeration (n.)
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an occurrence combining miscellaneous things into a (more or less) rounded mass; collection.
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Cotillion (n.)
Definition
a formal ball.
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Elegiac (adj.)
Definition
mournful; expressing sorrow for something from the past.
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Emissary (n.)
Definition
messenger.
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Endowments (n.)
Definition
natural abilities or qualities.
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Gesticulating (v.)
Definition
to show, express or direct through movement.
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Ineluctably (adv.)
Definition
Inevitably.
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Inquisition (n.)
Definition
a harsh or unfair investigation or series of questions.
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Insolence (n.)
Definition
the trait of being rude or impertinent.
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Martyr (n.)
Definition
sufferer for the sake of a principle.
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