《The Catcher in the Rye》Vocabulary
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1. David Copperfield: Charles Dickens' David Copperfield went into descriptive and intimate details of the narrator's family. The Copperfield he speaks of is the Dickensian hero and not the illusionist.
2. Touchy: oversensitive & irritable; delicate; thin-skinned; tense.
3. Prostitute: sold oneself; sell out; a person who deliberately debases his or her talents for money.
4. Falsies: stuffed bra; increase the apparent size of breasts.
5. Grippe: influenza; viral infection of the respiratory passages; fever, severe aching, and catarrh.
6. Bang out: do something quickly; excitement out of life; really enjoy something.
7. Boy: (interjection) an exclamation of wonder, approval, etc, or of displeasure or content.
8. Qualms: uneasy feeling or pang (a sudden sharp pain or painful emotion) of conscience as to conduct; compunction; misgivings.
9. Rostrum: platform; podium; stage; dais; lectern.
10. Compulsory: binding; forced; imperative; mandatory; obligatory; required
11. Peak: visor on a hat
12. Chiffonier: a high chest of drawers or bureau, often having a mirror on top.
13. Sadist: a person enjoying being cruel.
14. Belongsa: own this
15. Hellja: hell did you
16. Falsetto: high-pitched voice; countertenor.
17. Chew the rag: talk about nothing.
18. Lather: a frothy white mass of bubbles produced by soap or a similar cleaning substance when mixed with water.
19. Viselike: clamp; tight; grip.
20. Vitalis: of or pertaining to life
21. Booze: alcohol, especially hard liquor; drink alcohol, especially in large quantities.
22. Brown Betty: a baked dessert made of apples or other fruit, bread crumbs, sugar, butter, spice, etc.
23. Fiend: a person who is addicted or very attached to some habit, practice, condition, etc.
24. Halitosis: a condition of having offensive smelling breath; bad breath.
25. Linoleum: a hard, washing floor covering formed by coating burlap/canvas with linseed oil, powdered cork, rosin, & pigment.
26. Gripping: holding the attention or interest intensely; fascinating; enthralling.
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27. Canasta: a variety of rummy in which the main object is to meld sets of seven or more cards.
28. Bridge: a card game for four players, based on whist, in which one hand is exposed and the trump suit decided by bidding between the players
29. Snowing: to persuade or deceive; to make an overwhelming impression on.
30. Oversexed: having an excessive preoccupation with or need for sexual activity.
31. Conscientious: governed by; controlled by or done according to one's inner sense of what is right; principled; careful and painstaking; particular; meticulous; scrupulous.
32. Brassiere: full form of bra.
33. Highballs: a family of mixed alcoholic drinks that are composed of an alcoholic base spirit and a larger proportion of a non-alcoholic mixer.
34. Perverts: a person whose sexual behavior is regarded as abnormal and unacceptable.
35. Crumby: Loathsome; disgusting; lousy; Of inferior quality; shoddy.
36. Necking: to your clothed on and above the neck.
37. Burlesque: a fat stripper, who would otherwise without if not for their novelty.
38. Putrid: decaying or rotting and emitting a fetid smell.
39. Brassy: harsh and loud; tastelessly showy or loud in appearance or manner.
40. Grools: unattractive person.
41. Immaterial: unimportant under the circumstances; irrelevant.
42. Muckle-mouth: Someone who talks excessively to no end and about many things at once.
43: Snubbing: rebuff, ignore, or spurn disdainfully.
44: Get wise: take advantage of someone.
45. Hoodlumy-looking: A word used to describe something shady, sketchy, out of the ordinary in a bad way; dumpster; crazed behavior, reminiscent
46. Shoot the bull: have a casual conversation.
47. Knockers: A woman's breast, especially when unrestrained and allowed to move.
48. Frock: a woman's or girl's dress; a loose outer garment, in particular.
49. Crumb-bum: Someone who isn't doing the work they're supposed to, who's being lazy
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50. Bourgeois: of or characteristic of the middle class, typically with reference to its perceived materialistic values or conventional attitudes.
51. Sophisticated: having, revealing, or proceeding from a great deal of worldly experience and knowledge of fashion and culture.
52. Gay: happy.
53. Lulus: an outstanding example of a particular type of person or thing
54. Oodles: a very great number or amount of something
55. Sacrilegious: the violation or injurious treatment of a sacred object or person.
56. Furlough: leave of absence, especially that granted to a member of the armed services.
57. Flits: homosexual.
58. Boisterous: noisy, energetic, and cheerful; rowdy.
59. Ostracizing: exclude someone from a society or group.
60. Oiled: drunk; intoxicated.
61. Stenographer: a person whose job is to transcribe speech in shorthand.
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