All Quiet On The Western Front Vocab
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 haricot beans | kidney beans |
| mess-tin | mess kit |
| dollop | lump or blob |
| voracity | extreme greediness |
| quartermaster | army officer in charge of food, clothing, and quarters |
| chemises | women's undergarments |
| queue | line |
| disconcerted | frustrated; embarrassed |
| dust-up | fight; argument |
| dixie | army cooking kettle |
| non-com | non-commissioned officer, or lower-ranking enlisted man |
| unimpeachably | completely; not to be doubted |
| indignation | anger |
| hygienic | sanitary; healthful |
| skat | German card game |
| misère ouverte | French for "open misery" |
| blighty | a wound serious enough to be a cause for home leave or hospital leave |
| ostracized | banished; shunned |
| mediators | conciliators; intermediaries; helpers |
| wan | extremely pale |
| coveted | wanted; long with envy |
| morphia | morphine: a narcotic used to relieve pain |
| obliterate | to destroy completely; blot out |
| incomprehensible | incapable of being understood |
| gamut | entire extent or range |
| pettifogging | trivial; pedantic |
| discomfiture | embarrassment |
| clink | army prison |
| espirit de corps | French for "group spirit" |
| protrude | to project; jut out |
| revile | to abuse verbally |
| saveloy | dried sausage |
| uncanny | weird; eerie |
| reminiscences | memories; recollections |
| disgruntled | discontented; displeased |
| decorum | proper behavior; politeness |
| tommy | slang for a British soldier |
| retaliate | to strike back; return an injury |
| wiring fatigue | the military task of installing or repairing barbed wire on the front lines |
| lorries | trucks |
| embowered | enclosed in a bower or shelter |
| acrid | sharp; stinging |
| vortex | whirlpool |
| annihilation | utter destruction |
| fallible | able to be mistaken |
| indigent | poor |
| garden fete | garden party |
| barrage | prolonged attack of artillery fire |
| dismally | gloomy |
| convulses | shakes; violently disturbs |
| restive | uneasy; impatient |
| lolls | leans; lounges; droops |
| swoons | faints |
| extinguishes | destroys; causes to die out |
| strewn | scattered; spread |
| wince | to shrink or draw back from slightly |
| vault | to jump |
| levies | imposes |
| insatiable | unable to be satisfied |
| laconically | tersely; concisely |
| pub | tavern; bar |
| bobby | British slang for police officer |
| dram | small measure of liquor |
| pince-nez | eyeglasses with no sidepieces; they have a spring that keeps them in place by gripping the bridge of the nose |
| glowers | stares angrily; scowls |
| possy | position |
| insubordination | disobedience; insolence |
| angular | gaunt; with bones that jut out |
| instantaneous | happening immediately |
| unscathed | not hit or wounded |
| claustrophobia | extreme fear of being enclosed or confined |
| scaffold | execution platform |
| automata | people acting in a mechanical or automatic; robots |
| obliquely | indirectly; from the side |
| benediction | blessing |
| quadrangle | area surrounded on four sides by buildings |
| solace | comfort; consolation |
| inducement | incentive; motive |
| putrefaction | decomposition; rotting |
| equanimity | quality of remaining calm |
| sullen | gloomy; somber |
| docile | easily taught or led; submissive |
| wags | jokesters |
| quixotic | impractically idealistic |
| apoplexy | stroke; severe hemorrhage |
| tremulous | quivering; fearful |
| affably | in a pleasant, friendly matter |
| laudable | praiseworthy |
| rapture | ecstasy |
| disquietude | anxiety |
| schnapps | strong liquor |
| upbraid | to criticize severely; rebuke |
| ludicrous | ridiculous |
| "aller" | French verb "to go" |
| apathetic | indifferent |
| abyss | bottomless gulf; chasm |
| chorale | choral composition based on a hymn tune |
| peevish | impatient; fretful |
| "Ach" | German interjection, "Oh" |
| implacable | relentless; unable to be pacified or appeased |
| extenuation | partial excuse |
| camerade | French for "comrade" |
| placate | to pacify; to appease |
| idyll | happy, pastoral scene |
| uppish | uppity; snobbish; haughty |
| "An der Weser" | title of a German song "On the Banks of the River Weser" |
| fortnight | two weeks |
| fastidious | very critical or selective; dainty |
| valet | personal manservant |
| baldaquin | canopy over an alter or throne |
| surreptitiously | in a secretive, stealthy way |
| tuition | instruction |
| infirmaries | hospitals; clinics |
| heathen | people regarded as irreligious; pagans |
| mortuary | morgue; place where dead bodies are kept preparatory to burial or cremation |
| mantilla | woman's scarf |
| gendarmes | military policeman |
| despicable | hateful |
| aberration | deviation; moment of derangement |
| superfluous | unnecessary; surplus; irrelevant |
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