A Seperate Peace Vocabulary List 1 Flashcards
You had to be rude at least sometimes and edgy often to be credited with “personality,” and without that ________ no one at Devon could be anyone.
accolade
The sun was the blessing of the morning, the one celebrating element, an ________ with no purpose except to shed radiance.
aesthete
His enlistment seemed just another if Leper’s ________, such as the time he slept on top of Mount Katahdin in Maine where each morning the sun first strikes United States territory.
vagaries
The flaps of his gabardine jacket parted slightly over his healthy rump, and it is that, without any sense of derision at all, that I recall as Brinker’s _______ characteristic, those healthy! determined, not over-exaggerated but definite and substantial buttocks.
salient
Naturally Finny was going to be the first to try, and just as naturally he was going to _____ others, us, into trying it with him.
inveigle
He paused, surveying us with the kind of wide-eyed surmise Mr. Car hart always used at this point, and then added in Mr. Carhart’s ______ murmur, “Let us pray.”
urbane
They were not very _________-looking; their columns were struggling, their suntan uniforms had gotten rumpled on the train, and they were singing Roll Out the Barrel.
bellicose
Peace lay at Devon like a blessing, the summer’s peace, the reprieve, New Hampshire’s response to all the __________ and deadness of winter.
cogitation
The ocean looked dead too, dead gray waves hissing _________ along the beach, which was gray and dead-looking itself.
mordantly
“Not at all,” he replied ___________, reaching for a pair of crutches which leaned against the desk.
mordantly
The tree was tremendous, an irate, ______ black steeple beside the river.
steely
“Doing away with his roommate so he could have a whole roommate to himself. Rankest treachery, practically __________.”
fratricide
If he could not enlist – and for all his self-sufficiency Brinker’s could bit do much without company – he could at least cease to be so ____________ civilian.
multifarious
Mr. Lauds bury emitted a single chuckle from deep in his throat, then his face turned brick raped momentarily an she assumed the customary ____________.
sententiousness
These last were past the gym, the tennis courts, the river and the stadium, on the edge of the woods which, however English in name, were in my mind ___________ American, reaching in unbroken forests far to the north, into the great northern wilderness.
primevelly
