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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