rasin vocab Flashcards
undistinguished
(adj) common; nothing special (23) “The younger living room would be a comfortable and well-ordered room if it were not for a number of indestructive contradictions to this state of being. Its furnishings are typical and undistinguished and their primary feature now is that they have clearly had to accommodate the living of too many people for too many years.”
pretense
(n) pretending or feigning; make-believe; a false show of something (24) “Everything has been polished, washed, sat on, used, scrubbed too often. All pretenses but living itself have long since vanished from the very atmosphere of this room.”
exasperated
(adj) irritated; provoked; irked (28) “The boy gives her an exasperated look for her lack of understanding, and eats grudgingly”
viciously
(adv) with violence or fury (29) “RUTH: Just hush I said. (Travis jabs his spoon into his cereal bowl viciously, and rests his head in anger upon his fists)”
sullen
(adj) showing irritation or ill humor by a gloomy silence or reserve (29) “RUTH:… and not a single penny for no caps, you hear me? TRAVIS:(with sullen politeness) Yes’m.”
vindicated
(v) cleared of accusation, blame, or doubt (30) “RUTH:… I wouldn’t kiss that woman goodbye for nothing in this world this morning! (The boy finally turns around and rolls his eyes at her, knowing the mood had changed and he is vindicated; he does not, however, move toward her yet)”
proposition
(n) a suggested plan (33) “I can tell her the details. This ain’t no fly-by-night proposition, baby. I mean we figured it out, me and Willy and Bobo.”
