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Welcome to Decent Exposure High School Volume III:

indignant: defensively angry because of an insult Forms:

N: indignation

V: 00

Adj: indignant

Adv: indignantly

Related: dignity, indignity

Syn: insulted, defensiveAnt: flattered

indignationShe only felt a furious surge of

that he should think her such a fool.

Gone with the Wind --Margaret Mitchell

indignantly.

indignationindignantly.“We weren’t trying to hear him! said Ron

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire --J.K. Rowling

, and a storm of

passions, rushed through the listener’s heart, as the plot was laid bare.

Rage, astonishment, , and a storm of

Nicholas Nickleby --Charles Dickens

Any form of this word will appear once in every 299 pages of text.

usurping

The ghosts were returning; they filled Italy, they

were even the places she had known

as a child. A Room with a View --E.M. Forster

usurpations.

usurp

The history of the present King of Great Britain is

The Declaration of Independence --Thomas Jefferson, et. al.

a history of repeated injuries andThis was a shocking thing; that the slime of the pit

Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde --Robert Louis Stevenson

seemed to utter cries and voices; that the amorphous

dust gesticulated and sinned; that what was dead,

and had no shape, should the offices of life.

usurpation

William the Conqueror, whose cause was favoured by

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland --Lewis Carroll

the pope, was soon submitted to by the English, who

wanted leaders, and had been of late much accustomed

to and conquest

usurp: seize political power undeservedly

Forms:

N: usurper, usurpation

V: usurp, usurps

usurped, usurping

Adj: 00 Adv: 00

Syn: commandeer, appropriate

Ant: yield, surrender

Any form of this word will appear oncein every 658 pages of text.

tremulous: shaky, usually because of fearForms:

N: tremor

V: tremble, trembles,

trembled, trembling

Adj: tremulous

Adv: tremulously

Related: tremor

Syn: undulatingAnt: rigid

tremulously,

tremulous.

the Witch inhaled.

Something Wicked This Way Comes --Ray Bradbury

Now, experimentally, daring to test,H.P. and the Deathly Hollows --J. K. Rowling

Dumbledore’s smile was

The Picture of Dorian Gray --Oscar Wilde

In the grass, the daisies were

tremulous.paler and thinner, and his voice more

…with every successive Sabbath, his cheek was

Something Wicked This Way Comes --Ray Bradbury


deride: to express scorn with cruel laughterForms:

N: derision

V: deride, derides,

derided, deriding

Adj: derisive

Adv: derisively

Related: ridiculous

Syn: mock; jeerAnt: compliment, support

derisiveHe gave a short,

H.P. and the Chamber of Secrets --J. K. Rowling

laugh. derision, There was a stirring in the crowd, a few hoots of

October Sky --Homer Hickam

but Kennedy smiled.

derision. Usually, she could will herself to absorb Mariam’s

A Thousand Splendid Suns --Khaled Hosseini

and finger-pointing

derision

“How did you like getting shot?”

Putting all the

Eragon --Christopher Paolini

he could in his voice, he jeered,


Forms:

N: insolence

V: 00

Adj: insolent

Adv: insolently

Syn: impudent; disrespectful; audacious; brazen; impertinent

Ant: deferential; respectful; humble; obedient; docile

insolent: disrespectful; fresh; bratty

insolence and insubordination.

Remember that I am not Dumbledore, who forgave your

H.P. and the Deathly Hollows --J.K. Rowling

insolent, You’re

Angela’s Ashes --Frank McCourt

woman. insolence

“I will not suffer,” said the Baron, “such meanness on your

part, or such

Candide --Voltaire

on yours.”,insolent,

behind his glasses.

He stared back

Lock and Key --Sarah Dessen

his eyes seemingly huge


Forms:

N: reverence

V: revere, reveres, revered,

revering

Adj: reverent, irreverent

Adv: reverently, irreverently

Related: Reverend

Syn: pay homage toAnt: desecrate; insult

revere: respect deeply, almost to the point of worship

reverent

revere

reverent

The woman eyed her with a


,almost awestruck,

expression.

reverenceFriedrich Nietzsche, in The Fountainhead --Ayn Rand

The noble soul has for itself.

My hands naturally came together in The Life of Pi --Yan Martel

worship.

The Bourne Identify --Robert Ludlum

They those old soldiers.


petulant: cranky, grouchy Forms:

N: petulance

V: 00

Adj: petulant

Adv: petulantly

Syn: irritable, peevish,cantankerous, fractious,testy, pouty,

Ant: agreeable, docile, benign, easygoing

petulance.

petulant

O Pioneers! --Willa Cather

“I’m angry with you, Emil,” she broke out withEnder’s Game --Orson Scott Card

You can be as as you want, tomorrow.petulance when anything goes wrong.

His manner varies from genial bullying when he is in a good

humor to stormy

Pygmalion --George Bernard Shaw petulant

and tired and cross.

“But we’re just sitting here,” he said, sounding

Cujo --Stephen King

Any form of this word will appear once in every 1,613 pages of text.

complacent: blissfully unaware; undeservedly confident

Forms:

N: complacency

V: 00

Adj: complacent

Adv: complacently

Related: placid

Syn: smugAnt: cautious, wary

complacentCatch-22 --Joseph Heller

gratification.Milo nodded serenely with complacentSummer Pleasures --Nora Robertswith what he’d been doing.

But he’d let himself become too

complacent

Twilight --Stephanie Meyer

though,” he warned me. “Don’t let that make you complacent

Naked in Death --J.D. Robb

That would have wiped that smile off his face.


amiable: friendly; sociably pleasant

Forms:

N: amiability

V: 00

Adj: amiable

Adv: amiably

Related: amor

Syn: gregarious, affable

Ant: hostile, aloof

amiably.

The Killer Angels --Michael Shaara

The spy chatted amiableVaria did not try to look and kept her gloomy

expression. The Idiot --Fyodor Dostoevsky

amiable

Little Dorrit --Charles Dickens

I am playful; playfulness is part of my character.

The Book Thief --Markus Zusak

I can be Agreeable. Affable. And that’s only the A’s. amiable.


buttress: (n. or v.) support, as in an architectural structure that supports a building

Forms:

N: buttress, buttresses

V: buttress, buttresses

buttressed, buttressing

Adj: 00 Adv: 00

Syn: reinforce, fortify

Ant: undermine

buttressesIt’s got all these turrets and flying and stuff.

The Princess Diaries --Meg Cabot

buttresses

There was a soldier standing with his girl in the shadow

of one of the stone ahead of us.

A Farewell to Arms --Ernest Hemingway

buttresses

There was a soldier standing with his girl in the shadow

He could see the arched of the cathedral dome.

All the Pretty Horses --Cormac McCarthy

buttresses

They behaved like people who do not want to be seen;

lurking in shadow behind

The Silver Chair --C.S. Lewis

or in doorways.


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knell: the sound of a bell, esp. a bell that informs of a death

knell

His manner was so casual when he was sounding the

death

Gone with the Wind --Margaret Mitchell

of Tara. knelled. The bell clanged and

Sea Wolf --Jack London

knell There seemed to be an ominous

The Idiot --Fyodor Dostoevsky

of some evil to come.

knell

It could just as well have been himself for whom the death

Love in the Time of Cholera --Gabriel Garcia Marquez

was tolling.

Forms:

N: knell, knells

V: knell, knells, knelled,

knelling

Adj: 00 Adv: 00

Expression: death knell

Syn: toll, peal


Forms:

N: 00

V: covet, covets, coveted

coveting

Adj: covetous

Adv: covetously

“Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife.”

Syn: begrudge, envy

Ant: bestow, bequeath

covet: to want something that you have no right to want

coveted He’s

The Alchemist --Michael Scott

that for a long time, and now he has it.coveted.He put on his hat and the dark cordovan gloves I

The Lovely Bones --Alice Sebold

coveted.between him and the land he

Snow Falling on Cedars --David Guterson

He decided to end the life of another man who stood


covetsWhen someone

something, they desire and lust after it.

Sara Shepherd, Pretty Little Liars

entreat: plead with

Forms:

N: entreaty, entreaties

V: entreat, entreats,

entreated, entreating

Adj: 00 Adv: 00

Syn: beseech Ant: reject

entreatI you not to suppose that I moved this way

in order to beg for a partner.

Pride and Prejudice --Jane Austen

entreatLet me you, for your own sake and for hers, to be more quiet.

Hard Times --Charles Dickens

entreat you. Say no more against it, I

Mansfield Park --Jane Austen

entreat you to accept me as a husband.I

Jane Eyre --Charlotte Bronte

You—poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are--


chastise: punish

Forms:

N: chastisement

V: chastise, chastises,

chastised, chastising

Adj: 00 Adv: 00

Syn: castigate; reproach; reprove; rebuke;censure; reprimand; penalizeAnt: reward; laud; praise; extol; fawn over

chastisement.

The Giver --Lois Lowry

It was a minor rule, rather like rudeness, punishable by gentlechastise

Eldest --Christopher Paolini

Now I didn’t bring you in here just to you.chastise

The Kite Runner --Khaled Hosseini

How could I, of all people, someone for their past?

The Shining --Stephen King

He would them both, harshly.


discreet: kept secret or private Forms:

N: discretion, indiscretion

V: 00

Adj: discreet, indiscreet

Adv: discreetly, indiscretely

Syn: subtle, covert, modest

Ant: overt, immodest, obvious, indiscreet

indiscretion.

The Doll’s House --Henrik Ibsen

I daresay you know, like everybody else, that once, many

years ago, I was guilty of an

A Streetcar Named Desire --Tennessee Williams

I think I impressed upon him how important it is to handle

this thing discreetly.

discretion

The Merry Wives of Windsor --William Shakespeare

Old folks, you know, have and know the world. discreetly

unsentimental in letters.

This Side of Paradise --F. Scott Fitzgerald

He discovered Isabelle to be and aggravatingly


lucid: clear

Forms:

N: lucidity

V: 00

Adj: lucid

Adv: 00

Syn: comprehensible, coherent, limpid

Ant: incomprehensible, incoherent, muddy

lucid

despite her anxiety.

The Bourne Identity --Robert Ludlum

She was perfectly ,you could even say controlled,lucid.

The Life of Pi --Yan Martel

My mind made a final attempt at beinglucid--

fit around the words.

things were clear– but my tongue wouldn’t

The Things They Carried --Tim O’Brien

I was lucid.

A Soldier of the Great War --Mark Helprin

Though drunk, Alessandro was


obstinate: stubborn

Forms:

N: obstinacy

V: 00

Adj: obstinate

Adv: obstinately

Syn: mulish, cantankerous

Ant: agreeable, negotiable, flexible, conciliatory

ob: against or reverse: obstruct, obnoxious, obvious, object

obstinately.

The Hobbit --J.R.R. Tolkien

“I’ll do as I choose and I go as I please,”

said Bilbo obstinate pig.

The Magician’s Nephew --C.S. Lewis

And I’ve had enough of you too—you beastly,

stuck-upobstinately.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory --Rahl Dahl

“I want the gum!” Violet said

obstinate

Gone With the Wind --Margaret Mitchell

men get when they get their

backs up.

You know how


vacuous

vacuous

Cujo --Stephen King

His eyes seemed wandering, again.

The Waves --Virginia Woolf

People noticed the of my face and the

aimlessness of my conversation.

vacuously He opened the medicine cabinet. He stared rather

Franny and Zooey --J.D. Salinger

into it for a few seconds, as though he had forgotten why he

opened it.

vacuous look passed and Bourne reached for

The Bourne Identity --Robert Ludlum

the phone.

The veiled,

vacuous: empty-headed, lacking substance

Forms:

N: vacuous, vacuity

V: 00

Adj: vacuous

Adv: vacuously

Syn: shallow, inane, superficialAnt: profound, intellectual, erudite, sophisticated

Relatives: vacuum; evacuate, vaccinate


enigma: puzzle, mysteryForms:

N: enigma

V: 00

Adj: enigmatic

Adv: 00

Syn: conundrum

enigmas It was just another of the he never solved.

Childhood’s End--Arthur C. Clarke

enigmatic

New Moon --Stephanie Meyer

flitted across her face.

range of emotions I watched curiously as an

enigma He found himself fascinated by the

of the girl’s disappearance

Childhood’s End--Arthur C. Clarke

enigma She got up very early, intrigued by the

of the dream. Love in the Time of Cholera--Gabriel Garcia Marquez


aversion: strong, automatic dislike, esp. one causing a negative physicalreaction

Forms:

N: aversion

V: avert, averts, averted,

averting

Adj: averse

Adv: aversely

Syn: revulsion, loathing

Ant: attraction, magnetism, proclivity, addiction

aversion

She had avoided Emily Brent with a shuddering

And Then There Were None--Agatha Christie

aversion

to her stepmother. She had an unreasoning

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes--Arthur Conan Doyle

aversion.

made a face—a sneering, distasteful face—the word reeking


Others called them Mujahideen, but, when they did, they

of deep

word carefully.

“We have an to it,” she said, choosing the

The Alchemist--Michael Scott

aversion


avert: turn away from

Forms:

N: aversion

V: avert, averts, averted,

averting

Adj: averse

Adv: 00

Syn: evade, reject

Ant: seek out,

Root: vert, verseto turn: divert,diverse; convert,converse; subvert,subversive; traverse

averted.A potential crisis had been

The Shack--William P. Young

avert They shrug, mumble, and their gazes.

Water for Elephants--Sara Gruen

averted

to focus her thoughts.

Tally her eyes from Shay’s beauty, trying

Uglies--Scott Westerfeld

avertedListening for Lions--Gloria Whelan

his eyes. He merely turned red and


nonchalantly

nonchalant: having a free,casual, informal attitude

Forms: N: nonchalance

V: 00

Adj: nonchalant

Adv: nonchalantly

Syn: insouciant; blithe Ant: tense, intense

And he said , “I can waltz.”

The Grapes of Wrath —John Steinbeck

collisions by the thinnest of margins, all without so much as a

My driver drove

The Kite Runner —Khaled Hosseini

and recklessly, averting

pause in the incessant stream of words spewing from his mouth.

nonchalant.Catcher in the Rye--J. D. Salinger

I just got very cool and

nonchalant”“Don’t rush, act , Amy cautioned.

I Am the Cheese --Robert Cormier


frugal

a criminal activity.

They’re so with things here, waste is practically

Susanne Collins--The Hunger Games

frugal: thrifty; reluctant to spend moneyForms: N: frugality

Verb: 00

Adj: frugal

Adv: frugally

Syn: miserly, parsimonious

Ant: extravagant, lavish

frugally.Animal Farm --George Orwell

The truest happiness, he said, lay in working hard and

living

frugal,

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin --Benjamin Franklin

but to avoid all appearances to the contrary.

In order to secure my credit and character as a tradesman,

I took care not only to be in reality industrious andfrugal

Confessions of a Shopoholic --Sophie Kinsella

And I reckon I deserve a treat today, after being so

for the last few days.


zeal

The Things They Carried --Tim O’Brien

I didn’t have that patriotic zeal. They flung themselves into their work with savageOne Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich--Alexander Solzhenitsyn

zeal: excessive commitment or enthusiasm

Forms: N: zeal, zealot

Verb: 00

Adj: zealous

Adv: zealously

Syn: exuberance, ardor, fervor, elan, fanaticism

Ant: apathy, lethargy, nonchalance,

indifference, ennui

it with a

If something captured my undisciplined imagination, I pursued

bordering on obsession.Into Thin Air --Jon Krakauer

zeal

Into Thin Air --Jon Krakauer

Above 26,000 feet, moreover, the line between appropriate

and reckless summit fever becomes grievously thin.


Pious

pious

pious

pious: observing religious laws and customsForms: N: piety

Verb: 00

Adj: pious

Adv: piously

Ant: profane, blasphemous

practices and good works? A Portrait of the Artist as aYoung Man--James Joyce

Why do you turn away from your

Most were Christians or Muslims.Outcasts United --Warren St. John

and benevolence enough for two.Uncle Tom’s Cabin --Harriet Beecher Stowe

He really seemed somehow to other to fancy that his wife

had piety

people have always gotten on my nerves.The Secret Life of Bees --Sue Monk Kidd


pious: observing religious laws and customsForms: N: piety

Verb: 00

Adj: pious

Adv: piously

Ant: profane, blasphemous

astute: sharply observant Forms: N: asuteness

Verb: 00

Adj: astute

Adv: astutely

Syn: shrewd

Ant: obtuse, naïve, gullible

astute I’d say that’s a remarkably analysis.

The Shining --Stephen Kingastute,

are you losing it now?

“You’ve completely changed, you used to be so

The Trial--Franz Kafkaastuteness, For all his sagacity, for all his caution and

the old judge had gone the way of the rest.

And Then There Were None --Agatha Christie

astuteMr. Iacocca does not call for an air strike against Tokyo.

4. Chrysler may not like Toyota, but the

The Bourne Ultimatum --Robert Ludlum


opulent: observably wealthy, showy

Forms: N: opulence

Verb: 00

Adj: opulent

Adv: opulently

Syn: ostentatious, lavish

Ant: humble, modest, understated

Related: optical, opticianopulent An priest is a contradiction.

Les Miserables --Victor Hugo

opulent than in New Bedford.

Nowhere in all America will you find parks and gardens

more

Moby Dick --Herman Melville

opulent

“How grand you look, Randolph,” he continued in a thin

voice while studying his host and glancing around at thesuite.

The Bourne Ultimatum --Robert Ludlum

opulence

East of Eden --John Steinbeck

of having a teacher for each grade made anThe

impression on him.


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