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The Miracle Worker Vocabulary
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| convention | custom |
| fluidity | can change rapidly |
| spatial | having to do with space or things are placed |
| counterpoint | opposite |
| unencumbered | free to move about |
| vigil | watching; guarding |
| hearty | healthy |
| constitution | health |
| acute | severe |
| congestion | too much blood or mucus |
| vitality | power to live and endure |
| emits | sends out; give forth |
| editorial | article in the paper in which the writer states an opinion |
| unkempt | messy |
| vivacious | energetic |
| abrupt | sudden |
| insistent | never gives up |
| flanked | on each side |
| scowling | frowning |
| informally | not according to fixed rules and customs |
| spectacles | eye glasses |
| benign | kind and good |
| indolent | disrespectful |
| oculist | doctor for the eyes |
| emphatic | forcible; striking |
| facetiously | kidding; in a joking manner |
| imprudence | shamelessly bold |
| exasperated | to irritate; anger |
| placating | pacify; give in to make happy |
| asylum | old name for an institution for the mentally ill and poor |
| affliction | disease |
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Ellinwood Middle School |
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