Word: hysterical pg. 39 The doctor pulled his hands away. "You're hysterical. I'll give you some pills and see you in a month."
Defintion: Wildly funny
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Word: louts pg.63 "So, which one of you louts volunteers for the duty?"
Definition:
an awkward, stupid person; clumsy, ill-mannered boor; oaf.
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Word: convents pg.146 Matt tried to imagine what she was doing but he knew nothing about convents.
Definition: It says in the sentence before, that convents mean turning people into proper young ladies.
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Word: consternation pg.17 Matt stared at the scene with consternation.
Definition: utter confusion.
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word: thrust pg.208 The fears he'd thrust away had come back to him.
Definition: to push forcibly; shove; put or drive with force: He thrust his way through the crowd. She thrust a dagger into his back.
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word: tentatively pg. 69 She put her hand out tentatively. Matt shoved her away.
Definition: unsure; uncertain; not definite or positive; hesitant: a tentative smile on his face.
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Word: floodlights pg. 132 Floodlights lit up every corner of the garden.
Definition: an artificial light so directed or diffused as to give a comparatively uniform illumination over a rather large given area.
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Word: stammered pg.114 "You're a guh-guh-good musician," Felicia stammered.
Definition: to speak with involuntary breaks and pauses, or with spasmodic repetitions of syllables or sounds.
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Word: prowling pg.211 The priest was prowling back and forth.
Definition: to rove or go about stealthily, as in search of prey, something to steal, etc.
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Word: excursions pg.65 Matt didn't like these excursions.
Definition: a short trip or outing to some place, usually for a special purpose and with the intention of a prompt return: a pleasure excursion; a scientific excursion.
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word: muffled pg.88 He heard a voice. The doctor and Mr. Alcaran were pleading with a third person whose replies were muffled.
Definition: to wrap with something to deaden or prevent sound
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Word: dejection pg. 105 Felicia was staring down at her plate with almost as much dejection as Maria.
Definition: depression or lowness of spirits.
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Word: disarray pg.47 He looked up and saw his kingdom was disarray.
Definition: to put out of array or order; throw into disorder.
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Word: lackey pg.317 "If the aristocrat won't listen, I'll have to talk to his lackey."
Definition: a footman or liveried manservant.
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Word: haven pg.65 Matt avoided leaving the safe haven of Celia's apartment.
Definition: any place of shelter and safety; refuge; asylum.
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word: reluctantly pg. 95 Reluctantly, Tom and Matt left off their glaring contest and began looking under pillows, behind curtains, in dresser drawers.
Definition: unwilling; disinclined: a reluctant candidate.
struggling in opposition.
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word: stiffened pg. 208 Maria stiffened.
Definition: to become suddenly tense, rigid, or taut, as in bracing oneself for or drawing back from shock, fear, or displeasure: He stiffened, expecting to hear the worst.
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Word: mesquite pg. 226 He smelled the distant odor of the desert, perhaps even of the mesquite surrounding the oasis.
Definition: any of several usually spiny trees or shrubs belonging to the genus Prosopis.
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Word: shavings pg. 42 He heaped the shavings into hills.
Definition: a very thin piece or slice, especially of wood.
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Word: pg.44 He hid caches of food under the sawdust.
Definition: a hiding place, especially one in the ground, for ammunition, food, treasures, etc.
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word: implants pg. 105 "Fetal brain implants- I must try that sometime,"
Definition: to put or fix firmly
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Word: retching pg.52 The sawdust went up his nose and he doubled over, coughing and retching.
Definition: to vomit
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Word: eejit pg. 17 "I knew we shouldn't have brought the eejit."
A word used in the novel House of the Scorpion to describe a non smart person or an "idiot".
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Word: aristocrat pg.299 "I see our aristocrat needs further education," said the Keeper.
Definition: anything regarded as the best, most elegant, or most stylish of its kind.
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Word: pustule pg. 81 "Tom is a filthy little pustule."
Definition: a small elevation of the skin containing pus