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Glass Castle Vocab
3/27/2011
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English
9th Grade
03/27/2011

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Blasphemy
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n. cursing God; cursing anything held sacred
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Cajole
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v. persuade or obtain by flattery, gentle pleading, insincere language
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Cantankerous
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adj. ill-tempered and quarrelsome, mean-spirited
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Confer
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v. to consult, compare opinions
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Desolate
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adj. deserted, barren, lifeless
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Destitute
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adj. utterly lacking, devoid; impoverished
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Devise
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v. to form, design, plan, arrange
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Dilapidated
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adj. in a state of disrepair, broken-down
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Diminutive
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n. form made by adding suffix that’s meant to show smallness; adj. a small thing or person
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Disdainful
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adj. showing disrespect, scorn toward someone or something deemed unworthy
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Façade
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n. an artificial or deceptive front; the front of a building
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Feasibility
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n. capability of being accomplished, possibility
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Figment
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n. something made up by the mind, an invented or imagined story, theory
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Forlorn
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adj. sad
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Gumption
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n. boldness, initiative, spunk
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Immaculate
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adj. impeccably clean, spotless; free from error
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Inconspicuous
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adj. not readily noticeable
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Indignant
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adj. angered at something unjust or wrong
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Nonchalant
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adj. coolly unconcerned or indifferent
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Ornery
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adj. mean-spirited, disagreeable
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Ostentatiously
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adv. done to get noticed, to impress
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Pigeonhole
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v. to be placed into a small, narrow, ordered place/category; to treat according to a stereotype
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Precarious
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adj. dangerously lacking in security and stability
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Prominent
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adj. immediately noticeable, sticking out
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Retrospective
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adj./n. looking back on, thinking about, directed to the past
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Roil
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v. to make dense and cloudy by being stirred up, to disturb or irritate
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Shiftless
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adj. lacking ambition, lazy
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