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Elizabeth and Hazel
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Commemoration | to serve as a memorial of. |
| Reconciliation | to cause to become friendly again |
| Bitter | jealous; upset |
| Rapprochement | the establishment of or a state of having cordial relations. |
| Inconsistencies | situation in which two statements are different and both cannot be true |
| incredulously | being unable or unwilling to believe something |
| hick | an uneducated person |
| articulate | an educated person |
| coaxed | to be convinced or persuaded |
| preside | to be in charge of; host |
| remorseful | sorry |
| pondered | thought about carefully |
| psychology | the scientific study of the human mind and behavior |
| subordinating | making less important then |
| scouted | search for |
| overstated | made something seem better or more important than it is |
| naive | lacking experience, information or judgement |
| sentamentality | an act or feeling based on emotion rather then reason, often related to nostalgia for the past |
| vigilance | careful attention given to what is happening in order to spot danger |
| fissure | crack tear or break |
| pretenses | way of behaving that is meant to make people believe something that isn't true |
| dissertation | a paper researched and written by a student working to earn a doctoral degree |
| caveat | warning |
| resentment | bitterness; feeling of anger because something you think is unfair happened to you |