The Chocolate War Vocabulary
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hoodwinkme on April 7, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 adulation | excessive admiration or flattery |
| audacity | boldness |
| benevolent | habving of good intentions |
| caricature | exaggeration of a discard characteristic |
| chide | to scold, but more playfully or lightly |
| communion | religiously, drinking of bread and wine to symbolize union between one and christ |
| confession | act of acknowledging a past action |
| demureness | modesty, shyness |
| edifice | large structure or building |
| exult | to rejoice, to be very happy |
| feign | to create a false appearance |
| gratify | to satisfy, to make one feel good |
| incapacitate | to impair |
| indulgence | treating with generosity or kindness |
| ingratiate | to flatter to gain favors from a person |
| lassitude | tiredness, wariness |
| malicious | wanting to harm others |
| malingerer | one who feigns illnessor some condition |
| puruse (perusal) | to examine/read with a lot of attention |
| pervade | to spread through |
| phychological | pertainingto the mind and the effects of/on the mind |
| sacrilege | irreverence to something (often god) |
| sibilant | containing the soft "s" sound |
| subtle intricacy | non-obvious details |
| surreptitious | secretive, furtive |
| vigil | act of staying awake at night to watch |
| wistful | musingly sad |
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