Vocab I
Something that can't be taken back
What is Irrevocably?
to cause something previously regarded as abnormal to be accepted as normal
What is Normalize?
How often the narrator drives after the accident.
What is never?
One reason people are interested in true crime.
People are curious, enteretained or excited by it.
This notorious 1920s Chicago gangster, nicknamed "Scarface," was finally sent to prison for tax evasion rather than his violent crimes.
Who is Al Capone?
Sympathy with a person who has experienced pain, grief or misfortune.
What is condolences.
having a good reputation, honorable
What is reputable?
Band the narrator is a fan of the day of the accident.
What is Pearl Jam?
The analogy used to explain that humans are attracted to out of the ordinary events.
What is a car accident analogy?
This 19th-century unidentified serial killer terrorized the Whitechapel district of London and sent taunting letters to the police.
Who is Jack the Ripper?
Paying little attention to or failing to care for properly.
What is negligent?
To imitate in order to equal or excel
What is emulate?
A main theme from entwined?
What is we our lives are all connected?
Two places to use a colon.
What are in the time, before a list, to introduce an element that elaborates on what came before, to provide an example, provide a quote, or to connect two independent clauses.
In 1911, an employee walked out of the Louvre with this Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece, making it the most famous stolen painting in history.
What is The Mona Lisa?
To put yourself in someone else's shoes.
What is empathy?
to free from blame
What is exonerate?
The narrator discovers this on a video tape many years later.
What is, that Chris Grammercy pushed his father Russel in front of the narrator's car.
True crime affects our well being.
What is in various ways - everybody is different. You run the risk of traumatizing yourself. Some people get more disturbed than others.
This Great Depression-era duo became folk heroes to some for robbing banks across the Central U.S. before their 1934 ambush.
Who are Bonnie & Clyde?
Cannot be expressed; indescribably or unutterably.
having mixed, contradictory, or opposing feelings
What is ambivalent?
This big reveal changed the narrator's feelings about accidentally killing the ostensibly fantastic Russel Gramercy.
What is, Russel Gramercy was a mass murderer.
Make a complex sentence about yourself.
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This mysterious unidentified hijacker leaped from a plane in 1971 with $200,000 in ransom money and was never seen again.
Who is D.B. Cooper?