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Vocabulary
Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Insignificant | too small or unimportant to be worth consideration |
| Charred | burned and blackened |
| Privy | sharing in the knowledge of (something secret or private) |
| Compacted | firmly packed or pressed together; compressed |
| Tendency | an inclination toward a particular characteristic or type of behavior |
| Interrogation | to question formally and systematically |
| Dementia | a chronic disorder caused by brain disease or injury and marked by memory disorders, personality changes, and impaired reasoning |
| Guillotine | a machine with a heavy blade sliding vertically in grooves, used for beheading people |
| Ostracized | exclude (someone) from a society or group |
| Bizarre | very strange or unusual |
| Morbid | an abnormal and unhealthy interest in disturbing and unpleasant subjects, especially death and disease |
| Begrudgingly | reluctantly or resentfully |
| Forlorn | pitifully sad and abandoned or lonely |
| Psychic | marked by extraordinary or mysterious sensitivity, perception, or understanding |
| Reiterated | say something again or a number of times |
| Syndrome | a group of symptoms that together are characteristic of a specific disorder |
| Periodically | from time to time; occasionally |