Slaughterhouse 5 vocabulary

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  • Lousily Badly or poorly
  • Poignant Deeply emotional or moving, often sad
  • Preposterous Extremely silly or unreasonable
  • Massacre The killing of many people in a violent way
  • Optometrist A person who study optometry
  • Optometry The study of eyes and eyesight
  • Melancholy A feeling of pensive and sadness, typically with no obvious cause
  • Absurd Completely illogical or ridiculous
  • solemn serious and quiet, often because of an important situation
  • ridiculous so silly that it's hard to take it seriously
  • impressive causing admiration because of size, skill or quality
  • resignation accepting something bad or quitting your job
  • reluctant not wanting to do something
  • unstuck in time jumping between past, present and future
  • stage fright fear of performing in front of people
  • plumber a person who fixes pipes and water systems
  • umpire a person who judges a sports game
  • bristles stiff hairs like on a brush or animal fur
  • distinguish to tell the difference between things
  • ambiguous very clear, not confusing
  • attempting trying to do something
  • intercourse sexual relations between people
  • resent to feel angry or bitter about something
  • cowardice lack of bravery
  • punitive meant to punish
  • retribution when someone does something wrong and gets punished for it
  • wrath strong anger
  • ghastly very horrible and frightening
  • imperishable cannot be destroyed, lasting forever
  • pitiful very sad or deserving sympathy
  • bleary tired and unfocused, especially eyes
  • creek a small river or stream
  • seldom not often
  • vulnerable easy to hurt
  • anecdote a short true story
  • surrender to give up or stop fighting
  • fericious very fierce or violent
  • fierce having or displaying an intense or ferocious aggressiveness
  • hinged attached with a hinge
  • hinge a movable joint or mechanism on which a door gate
  • androgyne a person who looks both male and female
  • refractive able to bend light
  • tentatively carefully and uncertainly
  • shrubbery bushes and small plants
  • weeping crying
  • apparent obvious
  • crippled badly damaged or unable to work normally
  • festooned decorated with hanging things
  • vertigo feeling that everything is spinning
  • ivory a hard white material from the tusks of elephants (elfenben)
  • nourishment food or drink that helps you grow and stay healthy
  • luminous giving off light; glowing
  • extrapolating guessing what will happen based on known facts
  • embedded fixed firmly into something
  • fragments small broken pieces of something
  • amber a yello-orange color or fossilized tree resin
  • slumber sleep (often light or peaceful sleep)
  • sinuous having many curves; bending smoothly
  • acknowledge to accept or show that you know something is true or exists
  • peek to look quickly or secretly
  • inhabited lived in by people or animals
  • valley low land between hills or mountains (dal)
  • delirium a confused mental state, often caused by illness or fever
  • mangled badly damaged or crushed
  • atrocity a very cruel or terrible act
  • uterus the organ in a woman's body where baby grows (livmoder)

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