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Vocabulary A Prayer for Owen Meany
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| heterodox | departing from or opposed to the usual beliefs of doctrines |
| imperious | overbearing, arrogant |
| lexicon | dictionary |
| matriarchal | ruled by a woman |
| obdurate | unrepentant |
| seditious | rebellious |
| adjudicate | to judge |
| animosity | strong dislike, hatred |
| assuage | to lesson |
| diminutive | very small |
| garish | too bright, gaudy |
| palaver | talk, idle chatter |
| trysts | secret meetings |
| slatternly | carelessly, sloppily |
| stoical | showing indifference to emotions |
| torpor | state of being dormant or inactive |
| sepulchral | of the grave, dismal, gloomy |
| appelation | name or title |
| dirgeful | sad music |
| tremulous | trembling or quivering |
| acquiescent | consenting |
| deleterious | harmful |
| saguinary | bloody |
| voiciferously | vehemently, loudly |
| petulant | impatient, irritable |
| provocative | tending to provoke to action |
| banality | dullness |
| haranguing | blustering, harrassing |
| palimony | property settlement claimed by one member of an unmarried couple who separate after having lived together |
| precocity | ahead of usual development |
| puerile | childish, immature |
| sinewy | tough, strong |
| arduous | difficult |
| attrition | loss of personnel |
| verisimilitude | the appearance of being true or real |
| addlepatted | dull, foolish |
| disabuse | to rid of false ideas |
| unctuous | a smug, smooth pretense |
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Palmerton High School |
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