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Boy/ Pajamas Ch 1-6
Boy in the Striped Pajamas- Vocabulary Words from Chapters 1-6
Term | Definition |
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Exasperation | irritation, extreme annoyance |
Foreseeable | to know in advance |
Desolate | barren or laid waste |
Oblige | to put (one) in a debt of gratitude |
Plague | an infectious, epidemic disease caused by a bacteria, characterized by fever, chills, and prostration transmitted to humans from rats by means of the bites of fleas |
Muster | to come together, collect; assemble; gather |
Indicate | to point out or point to; direct attention to |
Dismissively | indicating lack of interest or approbation, scornful, disdainful |
Countered | in the wrong way; contrary to the right course, in the reverse or opposite direction. |
Customary | according to or depending on custom; usual habitual |
Conviction | the act of convincing a person by argument or evidence |
Insolent | boldly rude or disrespectful; contemptuously impertinent; insulting |