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AQotWF Vocabulary
All Quiet on the Western Front Vocabulary
| Vocabulary Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| voracity | having a huge apetite |
| foresight | an act of power of forseeing |
| windfall | something blown down by the wind |
| queue | a braid of hair usually worn hanging at the back of the head |
| unimpeachably | no to be called in question |
| palatial | relating to |
| hygienic | a science of the establishment and maintance of health |
| constraint | state of being checked, restricted |
| martinents | a strict diciplinarian |
| ostracized | to exclude from a group by common consent |
| helter - skelter | with hurry and confusion |
| mediators | a person who helps others with problems |
| bombardment | to attack especially with artillery |
| mutineers | passive resistance to lawful authority |
| carbolic | phenol |
| tactless | lacking or exhibiting a lack of tact |
| feeble | lacking in strength |
| coveted | to wish for enviously |
| intervene | to occur, fall, or come between points of time or events |
| obliterate | to leave no trace |
| melancholy | sadness or depression of the spirit |
| sympatheic | expressing, feeling, or resulting from sympathy |
| immaterial | no importance or relevance |
| embittered | to make bitter in flavor |
| incomprehensible | difficult or impossible to understand |
| gamut | a complete range or extent |
| reuniciation | the act or instance of renouncing |
| disciplinarian | one that enforces or believes in strict disciplian |
| infuriated | to make furious |
| discomfiture | frustration or disapointment |
| protrude | to push or thrust outward |
| gangrene | death and decay of bloody tissue |
| saveloy | a highly seasoned smoked pork sausage |
| scornfully | contempt or disdian felt toward a person |
| reminiscense | the act or process of recalling past experience |
| mischeif | behavior that caused discomfiture or annoyance |
| disgruntled | to make discontented |
| grudge | to be reluctant |
| conceived | poorly planned |
| fatigue | physical or mental weariness |
| annihilation | total destruction |
| penetrate | to pierce |
| consciousness | the condition of being conscious |
| suffocation | to kill or destroy by preventing access of air |
| swoons | to faint |
| comrade | a person who shares one interest or activities |
| non-com | a non commissioned officer |
| court-martialled | a trial by such military tribunal |
| inscription | th act or instance of inscribing |
| perplexing | lacking clarity; of meaning |
| gusto | vigorous enjoyment; zest |
| unison | the act of speaking the same words simultaneously by two or more people |
| artillery | large weapons |
| instantaneous | occuring with no delay |
| indifferent | having no particular interest or concern |
| bayonets | a gun with a sharp blade at the end |
| calibre | a degree of grade of excellence |
| dementing | to make insane |
| convulsion | a uncontrolled fit |
| claustrophobia | an abnormal fear being in a narrow or inclosed space |
| entanglement | to twist together |
| debauched | to corrupt morally |
| stupor | a state of reduced or suspended sensibility |
| benediction | a blessing |
| inapprehensible | unintelligible |
| chloroform | a clear, colorless, heavy, sweet smelling liquid that is used as an anesthetic |
| putrefaction | decomposing of organic materials |
| lorries | a motor truck |
| foraging | to wander in search of food |
| canteen | a bottle for carrying drinking water |
| rations | a fixed portion |
| demonstrative | given to or marked by the open express of emotion |
| apoplexy | a stroke |
| parapet | low protective wall along the edge of a raised structure |
| laudable | deserving commendation |
| zeal | enthusiastic devotion to a cause |
| dejected | to lower the spirits of |
| skirmishing | a minor battle in a war |
| contemptously | feeling scornful |
| dregs | sediment in a liquid |
| furtively | characterized by a stealth |
| melancholy | sadness or depression of the spirits |
| abyss | an immeasurably deep chasm, depth, or void |
| amiss | out of proper order |
| devasted | to take away |
| obtuse | lacking quickness |
| culprits | charged with a crime |
| extenuation | partial justification |
| irresolutely | unsure of how to act or proceed |
| avert | to ward off |
| petrified | so frightened that you are unable to move |
| billet | short thick piece of wood |
| edibles | fit to be eaten |
| chattels | a slave |
| provocation | the act of provoking |
| surreptitiously | obtained, done, or made by clandestine or stealthy means |
| convoy | the act of escorting |
| tetanus | a fatal disease |
| fatuous | unconsciously foolish |
| superficiality | being near the surface |
| dysentery | an infammatory disorder of the lower intestianl tract |
| degeneration | the process of degenerating |
| dissolution | decomposing into fragments or parts |
| aberration | a departure from normal or typical |
| emaciated | to become extremely thin as a result of starvation |
| oppressive | difficult to bear |
| despair | to lose all hope |
| rumours | a piece of unverified imformation of uncertain origin usually spread by word of mouth |
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