Vocabulary Terms for A
Separate Peace
Directions: Provide a
contextually based original definition that directly refers to the story for
(at least) each of the underlined vocabulary terms below. Used a dictionary for help defining a word,
but do not rely on the dictionary definition entirely.
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Correct
contextual definition provided on vocabulary flash cards for all
words listed |
Correct
contextual definition provided for all words listed |
Contextual
definition provided for all underlined words |
Dictionary
definition provided for all underlined words |
Some
definitions for underlined terms are inadequate or missing entirely |
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10
words are used in an original paragraph—part of speech may be changed |
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words are used in original sentences—must use word correctly |
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Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5
Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10
Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13
sedate,
perpendicular, strait-laced, varnish, preservation, tacit, vibrantly,
considerate, clarity, unhinged, accompaniment, modernizations, capacious, forbidding,
elegant, cupola, convalescence, asserted, “contentious
harmony,” ell, ramshackle, salient, forlorn, enormous, detectable, trudge,
bleakly, artillery, pigmies, intimidating, equivalent,
hypnotist, cinch, smirk, droll, protruding, sarcastically, prodigious, inveigle,
groveling, accelerated, consternation, rhetorically, insulated, cordial,
penetrating, reverberant, inanimate, seigneurs, serenely, matriarchal,
genially, deigning, counterattack, extrasensory, collaborator,
intelligible.
scatterbrained, eloquence, sternness,
novel, momentarily, unregulated, “draftable,” modifying, chronic, uncoil,
tolerance, commendable, ignorance, truant, indulgent, preoccupied,
clamoring, emblem, envying, conservatory, barbaric, teetering, inane,
temperamental, guillotine, illogical, indignant, conniver, anonymous.
abstractedly, venerable, entrenched,
institution, catacomb, secret societies, initiate, perilous,
inspiration, anarchy, haphazard, dictates, maneuverability, strait
jacket, anguish, calisthenics, infiltrated, cordial, optimistically,
sensually, improvised, insidious, shuttlecock, contaminated,
distastefully, “blitzkrieg baseball,” adversaries, disentangled,
perimeter, unconsciously, mass hypnotism, formidable, sensationally,
fragments, unpatriotic, prevailing, tremendous, loyalty, preparatory, stance,
dominating, subdued, inebriating, glamour, mediocre, outrageous,
forbidden, expulsion, entertained, conventional, ceremoniously,
accumulating, adventurous, intoxicated, honky-tonks, monologue.
gorgeous,
fanfare, mordantly, Lazarus, valedictorian, curlicue,
discern, detonation, amid, devastation, despairingly, obliterated, solace,
sustaining, enmity, bleakly, deliberately, insistence, diversions,
calculated, rivalry, exceptional, genuineness, fascinated,
indiscriminately, scholastically, slouched, philosophical,
comprehension, singularity, bouts, redoubled, treachery,
affection, effulgence, paganism, intolerable, splendors, half-denuded,
gaunt, elaborate, resignation, disapprovingly, dimensions, loitering,
exuberantly, listlessly, undulation.
cordovan,
nobleman, grandee, aristocrat, triumphant, recessional,
haltingly, reverberating, denounce, amiably, infirmary, amputate, ajar,
transfixed, threshold, diminished, visionary, flinched, delirious,
formulating, commandment, Decalogue, competitors, ludicrous,
irresolutely, reverie, erratic, prestige, dismal, invalid,
upholstered, compromise, righteous.
stopgap, sultriness, apse, tedious,
ceaseless, speculation, seersucker, imposter, continuity, keynote,
truancy, wayward, vindicated, idiosyncratic, eccentric,
emissaries, ordinarily, exaltation, transfigured, compensations, aligned,
immersions, transcended, infinitesimal, unimaginable, turbid,
extremities, sinecure, bantam, indignant, conviction, assertiveness, automaton,
systematically, humiliations, sympathized, goaded, egotism,
arrogance, ignorant, maimed, realization, catapulted, dousing,
skirmish, clammily, squall, fragile, conceal, stealthily, cloudburst,
mishap, dispensation, deliverance, dismissingly, contraption, favorable,
stuttering, dumfoundment, grimacing, obsessed, stupefaction, incoherent.
beaming,
preparatory, gabardine, idiosyncratic, derision, solitary, genially,
confidingly, congratulating, impinge, grudged, efficiency, extroverts,
mutilated, insinuating, rankest, fratricide, galvanized, arsenic, contretemps,
conspiratorial, obscene, implausibility, reconstruct, pried, insinuated,
theatrically, quadrangle, emphatically, paralyzed, differentiate,
tentative, improbable, burlesque, locomotion, inquiring,
interference, toiling, drab, immobilized, unvarying, recruits,
elite, converging, dispiritedly, enlistment, futility, elaborated,
contemptuously, sabotage, interned, rhythmically, feebly, mystification,
elaborately, ironies, misbegotten, decisive, impulsively, unexplainable,
conventional, dexterity, virtuoso, khaki, advantageous,
reservations, unsentimental, zestfully, illuminating, encumbrance,
provocation.
indignant,
clodhoppers, absorption, topical, ambiguously, invalid,
accenting, sacrifice, unselfishness, luxury, rhetorical questions,
overindignant, veered, catastrophic, insinuations, senatorial,
moccasins, aggressively, Elliot Roosevelt, Madame Chiang Kai-shek, Yellow
Peril, appalled, flu epidemic, inevitable, abbreviation, congealed,
bequest, peculiar, opulent, sobriety, reticent, adornment, permissible, extravaganza,
Pompadour, splendor, chandeliers, bric-a-brac, vençal,
rococo, treacherous, whimsical, gaits, ambles, waddles, exertion,
phantom, conjugating, involuntary, tremors, aphorisms, pungent,
predominated, paraffin, liniment, preeminently, poignance,
descent, pivoted, Roaring Twenties, Prohibition, grotesque,
noncommittal, sustenance, self-deprivation, patriarchal,
circuits, rackingly, cranium, exerting, accession, buoyed,
oppressed, entanglements, abashed, sententiousness, Waterloo, gullible.
vagaries,
herringboned, earnestly, perishes, queried, unemphatically,
liaison, humblest, novelty, undernourished, vitality, conqueror, desolation,
recedes, enfeebled, melodic, decisive, sequence, withdrawals, undergone,
multifariously, civilian, underprivileged, good Samaritan, confraternity,
baritone, irresponsibility, discretionary fund, benevolent, garrison, disillusioned,
nonfunctional, brooding, rebel, cider, appendicitis, illegal,
competitiveness, superhuman, exertions, insistence, duress, proviso,
dignity, cacophony, obliging, considerate, accolade, stampede,
cataloguing, invulnerability, perceptibly, mesmerized, vaguely, straddling,
perimeter, scramble, contenders, pulsate, hilarity, receding, inflammable, enlightenment,
marring, demonstration, choreography of peace, decathlon, abstraction
of speed, egotism, conjured, surpass, liberation, encroachments,
concocted, momentary, illusory, hilariously.
monotonous,
ricochet, culminate, outmoded, underpopulated, suicidally-defended,
holocaust, draughty, decipher, indestructibly, aesthete, angularity,
preliminaries, involuntary, fervently, irrelevant, superficial, furlough,
desertion, querulous, psycho, Section Eight Discharge, savage,
objectively, abundant, aflame, modulated, amounted, patchwork, splendor,
illusion, exaggerated, rejoinder, speculatively, exposure,
despairing, toiling, irregular, blotches, billowed, Mess Hall, amputation.
Olympian, primevally, approximately,
terminus, peninsula, austere, inveigled, preposterous, dramatically,
urgent, pantomime, tacit, offhand, ammunition, engulfed, vitality,
corduroy, veered, loyalties, generalship, eunuch, Hitler Youth, barefaced
lie, infantile, momentum, deluded, ironic, fantasies, systematically, corralled,
civilian, strained hospitality, latent, awkward, fortitude, alliance, self-preserving,
vestibule, indiscriminately, wafted, tempo, incredulously, involuntarily,
ruefully, gigantic, binge, parson, analyst, antics, cohorts,
culminating, flourish, balustrade, masquerade, perplexed, torpidly,
opaque, anonymous, theatrical, acoustics, surmise, urbane, semiserious, constricted, self-evident,
inevitable, timbre, collective, assent, contemptuous, Justice incarnate,
obstinate, competitive, inquiring, exasperated, reluctantly, deranged,
infraction, indecisive, elaborately, subsided, guileful, implicate.
illumination,
reverberance, conscious, presence of mind, foyer, stricken pontiff,
desolating, incongruity, irreconcilably, conversationally, receded,
materialized, obedience, idly, monotonously, maladjustments,
constellation, differentiated, expulsion, decrepit Devon endeavor,
exhaustedly, erratic, laboriously, undulations, bespoke, thronging,
epic, grandeur, superficial, impervious, figment, spellbound,
inevitable, mishaps, accelerating, animosity, exhilaration, parody,
languid, precariously, detachment, enlightened, anesthesia, alluded,
pungent, opponent, executed, modified, patrolling, habitually, amid,
unreasonably, incomprehensible, penetrated.
fabled,
musterings, predecessors, alumnus, benefactress, scholasticism,
architecturally, bellicose-looking, consultation, reprieve, cogitation,
urgency, cordiality, portliness, foxhole, amphibious, prosperous, aroma,
apologetically, shortcomings, malarkey, disillusionment,
unrecognizable, punctuated, morale, reservations, assimilate,
overwhelmingly, simplicity, vigor, confidence, serene, harmonious,
unity, forlornly, regimentation, qualms, Maginot Lines.
