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    This document provides a vocabulary list of 60 words found in the novel The Catcher in the Rye. The list includes the word, part of speech, and definition. Some of the words include phony, hemorrhage, ostracize, compulsory, sadistic, pacifist, unanimous, incognito, and halitosis. The list covers a variety of topics from emotions and states of being to locations and social classes.

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    This document provides a vocabulary list of 60 words found in the novel The Catcher in the Rye. The list includes the word, part of speech, and definition. Some of the words include phony, hemorrhage, ostracize, compulsory, sadistic, pacifist, unanimous, incognito, and halitosis. The list covers a variety of topics from emotions and states of being to locations and social classes.

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    The Catcher in The Rye Vocabulary List

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    This document provides a vocabulary list of 60 words found in the novel The Catcher in the Rye. The list includes the word, part of speech, and definition. Some of the words include phony, hemorrhage, ostracize, compulsory, sadistic, pacifist, unanimous, incognito, and halitosis. The list covers a variety of topics from emotions and states of being to locations and social classes.

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    The Catcher in the Rye Vocabulary List

    1. phony (adj.) fake; not genuine; not honest


    2. hemorrhage (n., v.) a great loss of blood; to lose a great amount of blood
    3. ostracize (v.) to exclude; to make an outcast
    4. qualms (n.) worries; doubts
    5. compulsory (adj.) required; mandatory; obligatory
    6. groping (v.) to feel with the hands; to search blindly or unknowingly
    7. sadistic (adj.) getting pleasure from causing pain
    8. ironical (adj.) humorously sarcastic or mocking
    9. exhibitionist (n.) a person who behaves in ways intended to attract attention
    or show-off
    10. unscrupulous (adj.) conscienceless; unaffected by principles of right and
    wrong
    11. pacifist (n.) peace-lover; someone opposed to violence
    12. lavish (adj.) extravagant
    13. conscientious (adj.) guided by principle; careful and hardworking
    14. unanimous (adj.) in complete agreement
    15. incognito (adj.) with concealed identity
    16. putrid (adj.) rotten; stinking
    17. intimately (adv.) in a close, personal manner
    18. humble (adj.) modest; not arrogant; not cocky
    19. capacity (n.) the ability to receive or contain; the ability to perform
    20. nonchalant (adj.) casual; laid-back
    21. atheist (n.) one who does not believe in God
    22. bourgeois (adj.) middle-class
    23. blas (adj.) indifferent or bored; unimpressed
    24. raspy (adj.) harsh; rough; grating
    25. inferiority (n.) the quality of being less than another
    26. louse (n.) singular of lice; (slang) a good-for-nothing person
    27. aristocratic (adj.) having the manners, values, or qualities associated with
    the ruling class or nobility
    28. boisterous (adj.) noisily jolly or rowdy
    29. sophisticated (adj.) a person, ideas, tastes, manners, etc. altered by
    education and experience so as to be worldly and wise
    30. halitosis (n.) a condition of having bad smelling breath

    The Catcher in the Rye Vocabulary List


    31. enlightening (adj.) tending to increase knowledge
    32. fiend (n.) a person who is extremely interested in or obsessed with
    something
    33. sacrilegious (adj.) against religion
    34. spontaneous (adj.) unplanned
    35. digression (n.) movement away from the central or main point
    36. pedagogical (adj.) related to teaching
    37. provocative (adj.) inciting, stimulating, irritating
    38. stimulate (v.) to excite or energize
    39. innumerable (adj.) countless
    40. scrawny (adj.) thin
    41. swanky (adj.) glamorous; high-class; upscale; ritzy
    42. falsetto (adj.) high voice
    43. gore (n.) blood
    44. tiff (n.) argument; disagreement
    45. pervert (n., v.) a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable
    especially in sexual behavior; to corrupt or damage
    46. psychic (adj.) sensitive to influences or forces of a nonphysical or
    supernatural nature
    47. putrid (adj.) of very low quality; rotten
    48. verification (n.) confirmation
    49. immaterial (adj.) of little importance
    50. suave (adj.) smoothly polite
    51. sterling (adj.) extremely fine
    52. chteau (n.) large country house
    53. cliques (n.) exclusive groups
    54. seductive (adj.) tempting, attractive or charming
    55. inane (adj.) pointless
    56. foyer (n.) a lobby or entry hall
    57. harrowing (adj.) extremely disturbing or distressing; grievous
    58. reciprocal (adj.) given or felt by each toward the other
    59. infinitely (adv.) endlessly
    60. scraggy (adj.) messy; untidy

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