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Red Badge of Courage Vocab.
Learn your Red Badge of Courage Vocab for the test.
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| affront | insult |
| lucid | dear |
| secular | worldly |
| demure | reserved, modest |
| flouted | disregarded |
| ardor | zeal |
| crescendo | gradual increase |
| facetious | sarcastic |
| feign | to give false appearance of |
| querulous | fretful |
| abject | wretched |
| harassed | to irritate or torment persistently |
| paean | fervent expression of joy or praise |
| sagacious | showing sound judgement and wisdom |
| jovial | jolly |
| trepidation | fear |
| portal | door, entryway |
| perfunctory | done routinely with little care or interest |
| havoc | chaos |
| doggerel | crude comic verse |
| specter | ghost |
| sardonic | sneering |
| reiteration | traveling, gone |
| ague | fever, chill, fit of shivering |
| docile | teachable |
| vigil | watch |
| exhort | encourage |
| sinuous | twisting, winding |
| malediction | bad curse |
| craven | cowardly |
| alleged | accused |
| blanched | whitened |
| livid | full of rage |
| adroitly | skillful and adept under pressure |
| languid | weak |
| visage | look on a face |
| ethereal | beyond real |
| prostrate | lying flat |
| crone | old hag, witch |
| gaunt | lanky |
| charnel | boneyard |
| blatant | unpleasantly loud and noisy |
| pacific | peaceful |
| lugubrious | mournful |
| tantalize | tease |
| condescension | patronizingly superior behavior or attitude |
| conjure | invent, think up |
| temerity | brave |
| derided | sneered, laughed at |
| dexterous | fluid, skillful |
| gauche | awkward |
| stoic | no feeling, serious |
| dilapidated | falling apart |
| mortification | shame |
| tableau | picture, freeze frame |
| impetus | force |
| bated | lessoned, held back |
| prodigious | great, huge |
| emaciated | no flesh, skinny, wasted away |
| portentous | evil omen |
| expletives | a string of swears |
| wane | to diminish, lesson |
| paroxysm | spasm |
| throe | spasm-negative |
| morose | depressed |
| gilded | with overdone decoration |
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