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"The Glass Menagerie
Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| gravity | seriousness, importance |
| imperious | extremely overbearing |
| implacable | incapable of being appeased |
| indolence | laziness |
| insolence | insulting or contemptuous behavior |
| lament | to mourn or express sorrow in a demonstrative manner |
| muse | to ponder |
| oblivion | state of being forgotten |
| ominous | threatening |
| peal | loud ringing (usually of bells) |
| precarious | dangerous, risky |
| precipitate | to cause to speedily occur |
| quaint | unusual in character or appearance |
| querulous | constantly complaining |
| rhapsodize | to express in an overly enthusiastic manner |
| turgid | swollen |
| unobtrusive | not readily noticeable |
| vacuity | emptiness as in lack of intelligence |
| vagrant | wanderer who does not have a home |
| vestiges | remnants, remains |
| whim | sudden and impulsive action |