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The Chocolate War

Vocabulary for the book The Chocolate War

QuestionAnswer
Pandemonium a wild uproar: tumult
Premeditation Consideration or planning of an act before hand that shows intent to commit act
Commiseration to feel or express sympothy:condole
Simonizing to polish with or as if with wax
sanguine cheerful
ingratiating trying to get oneself in others good grace
Ostentation excessive display, showiness
Commensurate balanced or equal
Inscrutable mysterious, hard to read
Irrevocable unalterable, fixed
Vulnerability capable of being physically or emotionally wounded, open to attack or damage
Rangy long limbed and long bodied tall and slender
Adulation excessive admiration or flattery
Farce an empty or patently ridiculous act, proceeding or situation
Precarious chacterized by a lack of security or stability that threatens with danger
Derision the use of ridicule or scorn to show contempt: being laughed at or ridiculed
scapegoat one that bears the blame for others
apathy lack of feeling or emotion; lack of interest or concern
camaraderie a spirit of friendly good fellowship
calisthenics systematic rythmic bodily exercies performed usually without apparatus
sabotaging an act or process tending to hamper or hunt
quota the number or amount constituting a proportional
disembodied lacking a body of freed from the body
adversary one that contends with, opposes, or resists: enemy
cajoling to persuade with flattery or gentle urging especially in the face of reluctant: coax
submissiveness submitting to others
tabulation to count, record, or list systematically
waylaying to lie in wait for or attack from ambush
sanctimoniously making a hyporcritical show of religious usually without apparatus
disheveled marked by disorder and disarray
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