High School Reading Vocabulary

Difficult Vocabulary in Assigned Reading Books
74 Recommended High School/Junior High Reading,
Books A to I: Skip to Works Beginning with J Books J to Z:
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque In order of appearance, as indicated:
  • Chapters 1-4: generation, voracity, requisition, ceaselessly, mutter, cunning, queue, quartermaster, derive, palatial, scat, billet, uncompromising, confound, ostracize, death-throes, morphia, renunciation, pettifogging, barrack, infuriate, latrine, attribute, grievous, esprit de corps, protrude, gangrene, patronizing, reminiscence, disgruntle, canteen, tommy stick, retaliate, munitions, aspirant, acrid, reverberation, indigent, taper, lorry, baseness, satchel, monotonous
  • Chapters 5-8: louse, tedious, scrounge, laconically, buxom, moors, bobby, disconcert, ventilate, glower, wrathfully, insubordination, scutter, knapsack, gnaw, parapet, devour, demolish, quiver, onslaught, protrude, claustrophobia, repress, annihilation, impinge, automaton, debauch, stupor, convulse, cleave, poplar, predominant, apparition, unattainable, congeal, inducement, delirium, downy, hemorrhage, sullen, malicious, pallid, delouse, bewilder, brothel, precipitous, toil, apoplexy, tremulous, composure, affable, expound, loftily
  • Chapters 9-12: schnapps, tunic, compensation, skirmish, slaughter, ration, quake, wretch, destitute, opalescent, dysentery, condemnation, devastation, concussion, barrage, entanglement, nauseate, irresolute, grub, bowels, fortnight, fastidious, evacuate, munition, chloroform, surreptitious, disconcert, commissariat, convalescent, appraise, differentiate, despicable, aberration, oblique, emaciate, anemic, insensate, blanche, armistice, superfluous, divination, borne
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    Absolutely Normal Chaos In order of appearance, as indicated:
  • Tuesday, June 12- Friday, June 15:
    geologist, mopey, misfortune, reflect, slinking, immaculately, coincidence, slopping, aggravating, commotion, shrugged, primitive, venturing, lunged, howling, tourniquet, strolled, pathetic
  • Saturday, June 16-Wednesday, June 27:
    hysterical, fidgeting, gabbing, mimicking, strutting, residence, fuss, wreck, entails, gag, extension, butler, gawky, skimmed
  • Thursday, June 28-Thursday, July 5:
    puttering, ingenious, cramming, rummaging, exotic, suitors, suckered, turpentine, eventually, anointing, captive, nymph, grungy, wail, slumber, abated, pitiful, landscaping, thrashing
  • Friday, July 6-Thursday, July 19:
    divulge, inherit, keel over, chaos, anonymous, coherent, badger, insensitive, babbling, pouty, swoon, lunatic, coincidentally, mush, gaping, chauffeur, uneasy, eternity, negligee, toiling, goony
  • Tuesday, July 17-Sunday, July 29:
    drafts, decency, out of whack, gangly, gasket, malarkey, metaphor, sappy, eliminating, thesaurus, jabber, offend, stern, shuffling, impulse, maniac, chaw on and on, primitive, maiden aunt, transfixed, provoke, mumblety-peg, vault, apprehension, scurry
  • Monday, July 30-Wednesday, Sept. 5:
    snooping, convict, mumble, tacky, soppy, diddly-squat, mortal, shrivel, hobbling
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    Animal Farm by George Orwell:
    Alphabetically - 75 words
  • Words A-E:
    abolish, apathy, benevolent, bewilderment, blithely, breaches, brood, colleague, confer, contemplate, contemptible--contemptuous, cryptic, daintily, decree, degrade, devotee, din, disinter, dissident, dole, ecstasy, efficiency, ensconce, expulsion
  • Words F-N:
    falter, famine, fidget, forelock, fortnight, gambol, generation, hideous, hoist, ignominious, impending, imperishable, implement, inscribe--inscription, knoll, league, leisure, machination, malignant, maneuver, maxim, nimble
  • Words P-Z:
    poultice, pretext, procure, prosperity--prosperous, pursue, quarry, rafter, rally, scathe--unscathed, scheme, scullery, seclusion, shirk, shrewd, solicitor, snuffle, suppress, toil, tractable, trample, treachery--treacherous, trickle, trotter, unanimous, unison, vicious, wean, whelp, windfall
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    Anne Frank, the Diary of a Young Girl
    in order of appearance, as indicated:
  • Sun., 14 June 1942: enhance, emigrate, Montessori, ardent, blithely, incurable, inventiveness, verse, fanatic, indefinite, superfluous, veranda, satchel, chattel, linoleum, annex, agitation, pique, monotonous, obstinate, cardigan, smuggle, umpteenth, bicker, barbarism, tongue-tied, fishwife, precaution, impoverish, Gestapo, prominent, saboteur, vile, convey, squabble, gnaw, condemn, florin, congenial, charwoman, vermin, wretched, attribute, inflammation, disinfectant, incoherent, disposition.
  • Wed.,13 Jan. 1943: rucksack, deprive, wage, clogs, dejected, mocking, rebuke, venom, lavatory, scamper, emancipation, jittery, chamomile, distort, aloof, ventilate, fray, siege, drizzle, barrage, smolder, tumult, pedantic, coquettish, portfolio, capitulation, perturbed.
  • Mon. evening, 8 Nov. 1943: palpitation, impenetrable, inflammable, lozenge, brimful, patronage, manifest, diligent, ironically, reproach, disheartened, witticism, hoity-toity, obliging, intuition, privation, wrestle, forthcoming.
  • Wed.,15 March 1944: reign, incessant, exempt, prudish, infinite, precarious, quell, suppress, inaccessible.
  • Mon., 8 May 1944: topsy-turvy, capitulation, blubbering, embody, exuberant, supercilious, peevish.
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    Awakening written by Kate Chopin
    in order of appearance, as indicated:
  • Chapters 1-10: persistence, cease, croquet, bonbons, incessantly, infusion, indiscriminately, sole, insistent, ministering, bodice, unamiable, prudery, contemptuous, repulse, quadroon, clamor, diminutive, camomile, muslin, gauntlet, countenance, portal, fictitious, speculation, bouillon, festoon, immutable, imperious, plaintive, dissent, malicious, totter, capricious, supercilious
  • Chapters 11-20: compelling, intangible, pirogue, composure, giddy, bough, speculate, pacify, pretentious, sardonically, treacherous, preposterous, convulsively, postscript, nutriment, jalousies, scrupulously, diminutive, trifle, procure, infatuation, complacency, ennui, extraneous, pandemonium, annihilation, rebuke
  • Chapters 21-30: perambulation, bequeathe, toddies, palpitant, reminiscent, coercion, devoid, insolent, compulsion, impulsive, spasmodic, languorous, susceptible, prolific, invigorate, tabouret, mirth, candelabra, commodious, volition
  • Chapters 31-34: remonstrance, sumptuous, patois, reverie, stupor, insurmountable, despondency, voluptuous, demented, incoherent, Bon Dieu (Good Lord! My God!), peignoir (lingerie - a nightgown/robe set), soirees musicales (musical evening performances), Ah! si tu savais (Oh! If only you knew...), la belle dame (the lovely lady), ma foi (my faith), Bonne nuit, ma reine, soyez sage (Good night, my queen, be good/well-behaved), les mets (food), les entre-mets (snacks), la corbeille (the basket) Other French vocabulary: Allez-vous-en! (Go on with you!); accouchement (delivery=baby); camaraderie (friendship); par example (by example); blaguer-farceur-gros bete, va (prankster-joker-fat"beast", go); mais ce n'est pas mal! (But, that's not bad!); Elle s'y connait, elle a de la force, oui (She knows about it, she is strong, yes); ma chere (my dear/dearest/darling); pauvre cherie (poor darling); Tiens, (Well,well/So)' "Voila que Mme Ratignolle est jalouse!" (It's/There's Mrs. Ratignolle who is jealous)
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    The Bean Trees written by Barbara Kingsolver Words appear in order of appearance, as indicated:
  • Chapters One (The One To Get Away)-Four (Tug Fork Water):
    silo, prosthetic, emanating, transient, ascendant, endogenous, galvanic, jillion, rummage, cellophane, stout, dilapidated
  • Chapters Five-Ten (Bungalow):
    condone, reverence, ramshackle, taunting, scrounge, picayune, jibbering, prudish, trellis, greengrocer
  • Chapters Eleven (Dream Angels-Twelve:
    persistent, cacadas, scorched, asphyxiation
  • Chapters Thirteen (Night-Blooming Cereus)-Fourteen:
    resilient, trauma, coerce, bewilderment, hootch, perturbed
  • Chapters Fifteen (Lake O' The Cherokees-Seventeen:
    rhinestones, catatonic, notarize, transient, parsonage, horticulture, imposter, rigamarole
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    BEOWULF : A Verse Translation:
    95 words in order of appearance, as indicated:
  • Lines 1-125: atheling, flourished, encroaching, prospered, tribute, bestowing, wield, accoutrement, hoard, patriarch, kinsmen, mead, pallet, glut
  • Lines 126-376: lamentation, foe, affliction, omen, prow, plough, belies, assailant, chafe, unscathed, ample, oppression
  • Lines 377-851: venturer, harrowing, dwindle, undissuadable, loathsome, undaunted, blithe, embellish, gluttonous, intricate, grisly, pliant, flagging
  • Lines 852-1109: wield, repertory, lament, elicit, hasp, fetters, unmarred, prowess, disparagement, compensation, kindred, pyre, constraint
  • Lines 1110-1512: insatiable, entreat, bolster, mail-coat, ogress, trod, reconnoiter, eloquent, gaff, incensed, bulwark, pinion
  • Lines 1513-2462: brandish, strife, invidious, dominion, blight, bower, prow, rebuke, contrive, gale, cuirass, fealty, calamitous
  • Lines 2463-3182: grapple, intransigent, annihilate, endowment, venomous, stout, besiege, wrathfully, plunder, undemur
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    Black Boy by Richard Wright in order of appearance:
  • Chapters 1-2 pages 3-77
    cryptic (7), doggerel (24), infinite (7), copiously (27), languor (8), injunction (13)
    Chapter 2 pages 36-77:
    intangible (37), surreptitiously (50), asafetida (72), emulate (73)
  • Chapters 3-6 pages 77-157
    grapple (81), elicited (92), nirise (86), predilection (100)
    Chapter 5 pages 122-144:
    solicitude, palatial (128), palled (133)
    Chapter 6: invectives (149), nominal (156), boon (150), impudent (157), sonorously (155)
  • Chapters 7-15 pages 163-283
    Chapter 7 florid (163)
    Chapter 8 pages 170-178: impetus (173)
    Chapter 9
    dissemble (184), breech (191)
    Chapter 10, pages 194-207:
    subservience (196), repugnant (199)
    Chapter 15 pp. 261-283: translucently (261), terse (278), feudalism (265), libations (282), tawdry (271), travail (273)
  • Chapters 16-18 pages 284-328
    Chapter 16 pp 284-299:
    cynical (285), oblique (286), succumbed (288) malinger (293), eschewing (295)
    Chapter 17, pages 300-314: anarchy (301), insurgent (302), obviate (307), tacutyrb (313)
    Chapter 18 pages 315-328:
    cibdescebsuib (317) tents (322)
  • Chapters 19-20 pages 329-382
    chapter 19, pp 329-375:
    bourgeois (331), ideological (360), internecine (368), inherent (332), recrimination (361), truncated (374), incipient (351), aesthetic (364), Fascism (355), erstwhile (367)
    Chapter 20 proletarian (377), sundered (382)
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    Call of the Wild by Jack London in order of appearance, as indicated:
  • Chapters 1-3: primitive, glimpse, interlace, imperiously, inseparable, universal, sate, aristocrat, egotistical, treachery, menacing, deft, ebb, hydrophobia, impending, calamity, tallow, assail, taunt, metamorphose, ferocity, wrench, slouch, conciliate, impartial, primordial, draught, appeasement, ignominious, yelp, trounce, indispensable, ravenous, perpetual, blunder, ruthless, cunning, acuteness, conspicuous, primeval, malingerer, goad, treacherous, contemplation, eddy, daunt, quiver, swerve, covert, culprit, borealis, articulate, travail, exultantly, brood
  • Chapters 4-7: obdurate, comply, unruly, scorched, flounder, exertion, chaffer, apprehensive, remonstrance, abide, tote, wrench, whoop, inexorable, superfluous, mongrel, shorn, chivalrous, rouse, eloquent, nudge, tenderfoot, appall, quibble, contagion, grit, vigilant, impel, recurrent, pivot, pertinacity, belie, imperiously, chaff, sequential, simultaneous, ambuscade, lolling, calamity, multitudinous, excrescence, discomfit, muse
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    Canterbury Tales by Chaucer (McCaughrean)
    (155 words total)In order of appearance:
  • Prologue, Knight's Tale and Miller's Tale (43 words)
    rend jerkin yeoman mull wispy welter parson summoner pardoner amble quagmire drover magpie gaoler pine(v) ravish asp melee millstone list billet caparison oriflamme divot tunic haft gauntlet reeve tuft traipse strident drone regale pert larder sepulchral settle(n) snigger squander wimple pommel prioress primp
  • Nun's Priest Tale, Reeve's Tale, Scholar's Tale, Wife of Bath's Tale (47 words)
    cockerel chanticleer palisade crenellated paragon mottle cluck flit scimitar trill privet stile dastardly wry brandish nonchalantly smock distaff bowsprit impudence warily inarticulate tithe doff cavalcade hovel bounden petticoat farrier scullery stern(n) canter fawning leering tendril cannikin tarantella crone cauldron nuptial cacophonous forlornly mote(n) moot dhow pustular charlatan
  • The Pardoner's Tale, Sir Topas (27 words)
    indignation duffer whorl muse ruffian forelock grovel apothecary intone conjuror macabre loll haberdasher furtive champ(v) scuttle(v) steed derring-do lattice ashen doggerel bray franklin benighted stifled bodice trencher
  • The Franklin's Tale, Magistrate's Tale, Canon's Yeoman's Tale, Friar's Tale, Merchant's Tale, Epilogue (38 words)
    rankle dissuade bower founder(v) prow reprovingly fickle nit rickety sedate canon beckon steward venerable obstinately eaves retort(n) kiln dross soupcon solicitously alderman vicar mongrel touchstone loathsome bailiff flotsam spinney alyssum cavort slither gabardine refectory waspish florid callous frivolous
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    Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
    in order of appearance, five or six chapters at a time, as indicated:
  • Chapters 1-5: autobiography, dough, ostracize, grippe, posture, ironical, innumerable, moron, phony, sheer, parlor, rostrum, chiffonier, falsetto, conceited, aggravate, hound's-tooth, muffler, monotonous, psychoanalyze, halitosis
  • Chapters 6-10: linoleum, hospitality, fiend, corridor, Canasta, janitor, conscientious, phony, lagoon, incognito, brassiere, burlesque, psychic, brassy, intoxicating, verification, jitterbug
  • Chapters 11-15: snub, necking, newsreel, vomit, rile, galoshes, nonchalant, rake, frock, atheist, chisel, banister, rubberneck, gory, matinee, bourgeois, convent
  • Chapters 16-20: screech, auditorium, bosom, raspy, beret, clinch, blase, conceited, enlightening, sacrilegious, booze, slobber, sophisticated, louse, flitty, boisterous, stagger, puke
  • Chapters 21-26: racket, Sagittarius, Taurus, betray, snotty, expel, spontaneous, flunk, digression, pedagogical, provocative, stenographer, appeal, stimulate, scholarly, pervert, moccasin, cockeyed, recess, mummy, pharaoh, punk, carrousel, jazzy, bawl
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    I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings written by Maya AngelouIn order of appearance:
  • Chapters 1-5:: snout, musty, ceaseless, kerosene, commissary, paranoia, boll, abucus, penitentiary, jest, rakish, astraddle, scurry, heinous, bogey man, tonic, aghast, preserves, aptly, adder
  • Chapters 6-10: brimstone, deacon, flinty, pulpit, chifforobe, bombastic, brood, quadroon, octoroon, lofty, saloon, sibling, reminisce, appellation
  • Chapters 11-15: squirm, torturous, violator, instinctive, smirking, forfeit, impudent, lynching,benign, bungalow, crumpet, tribulation
  • Chapters 16-20: debutante, embroider, sachet, mumbledypeg, apprehension, plod, berate, extinction, illusion, swagger, blasphemous, hoity-toity, vaunt, pendulum, assai;l, maim, snicker, treacherous, monitor, coherent
  • Chapters 21-25: metamorphosis, imperceptible, placate, voodoo, banshee, serge, ordurous, ghoulish, reminiscence, pique, jittery, perfunctory, palpable, puce, elocution, diminish, contemptuous, scoundrel, vernacular, confrontation, djinn
  • Chapters 26-30: lax, pince-nez, goulash, spontaneous, untwine, desiccate, impermanence, maraud, shroud, dautless, animoity, aura, frivolous, soliloquy, pantomine, inducement, elicit, proposition, Lucullan, manor, corrugated, ramshackle, quizzical, lofty, reveler, incomprehensible, bumbling, careen, cacophony, winsomely
  • Chapters 31-35: pretentious, piteous, keen, plague, perplex, impudence, laceration, Brobdingnag, deliquent, jitterbug, magnanimous, zoot suit, alum, visor, recourse, ocher, knapsack, chenille, jaunty, inflection, excruciating, tripartite, belligerence, libido, ostracize, hermaphrodite, hoard, unrelenting, malaise, suave, unscrupulous
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    Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier In alphabetical order (with page reference):
  • The shadow of a crow (to) The color of despair:
    rousing, diversion, hunker, ramrod, lurid, shod, precipe, cravat, skirmishes, opined, comeliest, skittish, rent, sodden, temperate, improvisational, whittle, hennaed, hoard, spraddled, vertigo, chutney, cabriolet, bower, tumult, pullet, hovering, ineffectual
  • The color of despair (to) Ashes of Roses
    jaunty, slough, cicada, daub, smote, unimpede, benighted, brooch, honed, millrace, fallow, whoop, gelding, jounce, incongruent, scofflaw, potency, sconce, illumination, sprawled, aurora, smirched, haunches, gullibility, boughs
  • Ashes of Roses (to) To live like a gamecock
    hover, springhouse, grits, luminous, quiver, subjugating, locution, skulking, bafflement, cowed, skewered, swoon, crinoline, pretext, orifice, drollness, heedfully, conferred, supercilious
  • To live like a gamecock (to) The doing of it:
    pate, virile, feral, smoldering, aperture, droning, spectating, smattering, harrying, plaited, antimacassar, millinery, countenance, brandish, filigree, vagabond, plumb, taper, erratic
  • The doing of it-A satisfied mind:
    swath, impediment, menhirs, voluminous, epigraph, sieve, laudanum, cheroot, contentious, knell, drone, ravenous, stricture, dire, cauldron, declamation, specter
  • A satisfied mind (to) Footsteps in the snow
    culls, causation, repertoire, poteen, undulation, contemplation, commemoration, elaborate, reminiscent, meditative, lucifer, gradation, construed
  • Footsteps in the snow (through) Epilogue, October of 1874
    constrict, undifferentiate, pallet, fester, aggregate, wanton, libertine, tantalising, congeal, amended, precarious, conjure, treacherous, prescribed, poignancy, inauguration, epilogue, solstice, poultice
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    CRUCIBLE in order of their appearance:
    Vocabulary from the 4 Acts of
  • Act One: heathen conjure, faction, abomination, gibberish, deference, naught, dwindling, abyss, intimation, formidable, trepidation, titillate, notorious, prodigious, fathom, defamation, anarchy, avidly, licentious, blanched, evade
  • Act Two: pallor, ameliorate, indignant, daft, taint, quail, inept
  • Act Three: abundant, befuddle, effrontery, immaculate, qualm, probity, callous, base, slovenly, unperturbed
  • Act Four: gaunt, agape, conciliatory, beguile, reprieve, retaliate, adamant, cleave, tantalize
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    Cry, The Beloved Country written by Alan Paton In order of appearance, as indicated:
  • Note:Appended list of words is located at the end of the book
    Foreword:
    conventional, reformatory, apartheid
  • Introductions I-IV:
    trek, pastoral, consolidate, enfranchisement, intervention, recognition, advocate, franchise, stenographer, prominent, pampering, penal, compel, palpable, pervade, subsequent, emulate, incidental, impoverish, intractable, eloquent, dominion, denouement, solace, zealous, calamitous, prevail
  • Book 1: 1-8
    bracken, forlorn, veld, arum, dell, wattle, ponder, sullenly, reconcile, compelled, squatter, bewildered
  • Book 1: 9-14
    parson, desolate, contemplate, cunningly, contrive, amend, symposium, dwindling, vagabond, vestments, transfigure, prodigal
  • Book 1: 15-17:
    amendment, bereave, devastating, absolve, assessor, implicate
  • Book II: 18-22:
    ineluctable, bereft, indignation, reverie, incorruptible, repenting
  • Book II: 23-29:
    subsidize, callous, exhilarate, indiscriminate, unscrupulous, renounce, assailant, constraint
  • Book III: 30-36:
    desolation, tremulous, maize, respite, intimidation, kraal, compulsion, bereaved transfixed, provoke, mumblety-peg, vault, apprehension, scurry
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    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey in order of appearance:
  • Part 1: glare, swivel, croon, hover, chronic, ornery, loony, pinochle, hassle, callus, heft, efficiency, slurp, replica, knobby, gripe, scowl, embalmer, straggle, overzealous, grievance, prototype, acoustic, braggart, sadistic, ineffectual, matriarchy, notorious, cuss, shimmer, deduce, withered, rumble, splatter, nudge, maudlin, folio, giddy, dingbat, burrow, varnish, humiliation, ample and scour
  • Part II: bile, vulnerable, suspicious, fidget, latrine, scaffolding, assert, gurney, punitive, sadism, convulsion, delirious, holler and bellow
  • Part III: wheedle, hovel, indigent, jounce, expedition, flophouse, keelhaul, troll, chum, gaff and jetty
  • Part IV: dismay, venture, rivet, hallucinate, notoriously, shudder, lobotomy, eventually and ramshackle
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    David Copperfield by Charles Dickens in order of appearance grouped by twenty words:
  • prediction, verify, falsify, solitary, shilling, meander, posthumous, formidable, hamlet, composure, countenance, ensue, dreary, boisterous, restorative, tantalize, cranky, sputter, oppression, loiter
  • allusion, demure, veneration, invocation, aversion, attire, stroll, exquisite, perish, defiant, apprehension, peep, tinker, scanty, meditation, oppressive, indignation, admonish, urn, benign
  • notorious, partial, remittance, jovial, condolence, deferential, inflict, oblige, rapturous, despondent, capricious, cravat, deplorable, missive, delirious, lackadaisical, stammer, immortalize, trepidation, languor
  • forlorn, patrician, remonstrance, toil, affliction, endeavor, constrain, slumber, exhort, complacent, conflagration, impetuous, benevolent, arbitrary, oration, reckless, wretched, appalling, condescend, vestige
  • apprehension, whiff, rheumatic, malignant, odious, compassionate, melancholy, extenuate, solicitous, munificence, hover, chandler, tranquil, humiliation, sustain, premise, caper, esteem, warrant, sanguine
  • saunter, anathema, precipitation, remorse, amicable, denunciation, precipice, valiant, dreary, despondency, latent, reverential, pecuniary, decease

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  • Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller in order of appearance:
  • simonize, idealist, merchandise, hammock, anemic, fob, watch fob, philandering, remiss, insurance premium, dictation, cliches, self-centered, desert, magnificence

  • Alphabetically:
  • anemic, cliches, desert, dictation, fob, hammock, idealist, insurance premium, magnificence, merchandise, philandering, remiss, self-centered, simonize, watch fob
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    Double Helix by James D Watson in order of appearance, as indicated:
  • Preface and Chapters 1-10 version, assessment, definitive, helix, constitute, contradictory, rucksack, colleague, diffraction, elucidation, crystallography, refrain, subsequently, contemporaries, apprehension, opulent, deoxyribonucleic, comparative, marginally, austere, gamble, postdoctoral, phage, nucleotides, dividends, flop, stimulating, elector, conducive, macromolecule, banal, vacuous, crystalline, nitwit, defective, snare, mesmerize, botch, dazzling, deficient, hemoglobin, elicit, poliomyelitis, crystallographic, prediction, nominally, uncompromising, indisputable, conventional, interjection, inducement, apparatus, scheme, stipend, manipulation, fortnight, slaughterhouse, subsequent, endeavor, internucleotide, configuration, theoretical, tussle, diffraction, buoy, conspicuous, afflict, jubilant, frivolity, venture, aloofness, condescension, muddle
  • Chapters 11-20 fiasco, polypeptide, relevant, claret, spiffy, inquisitive, dismiss, phosphodiester, linear, fanfare, perversity, periphery, pugnacious, blather, impede, cessation, jigs, myoglobin, impending, larder, limpid, compensate, moors, mosaic, alkali, paradox, collagen, pernicious, debacle, keen, flippant, preposterous, replication, quantum, feasible, adenine, thymine, guanine, cytosine, retort, baroque, mononucleosis, contingent, eccentric, prodigious, rabbinical, shroud, perverse, frivolous, drone, euphoric, ribonuclease
  • Chapters 21-29 matriculation, dyspeptic, fervor, speculation, ajar, blubber, antihelical, slouch, ambiguity, peer, gentry, truckle, purine, ruffle, fiddle, stereochemically, configuration, pallid, adenine, replication, bogus, enol, conceptually, plumb, aesthetically, devoid, transnational
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    Emma by Jane Austen In order of appearance, as indicated:
  • Chapters 1-7:
    disposition, esteemed, constitution, curtsey, indisposed, mortification, scruples, alacrity, gruel, affability, fluctuations, fastidious, inducement, countenance, apprehended, entreaties, unequivocal, propriety, illiterate, contemptible, approbation, remonstrate, conundrum
  • Chapters 8-13:
    exultation, charade, antidote, monarch, hoodwink, submissive, ostensible, gallantries, fortuitious, discordance, prevalent, tranquillised, dissuade
  • Chapters 14-21:
    solicitously, tete-a-tete, supplication, unmirthful, blunder, asunder, contrive, coxcomb, ingenious, judicious, compassion, candour, provocation, perturbation, haberdasher, condescension
  • Chapters 22-26:
    rencontre, complacency, acquiescence, concurrence, hyperbolical, lament, fortnight, opportune, bilious, inference, perseverance, improvidently, unostentatious, disparity, subside
  • Chapters 27-33:
    spectacles, felicity, compunction, zeal, speculation, languor, flourish, indignation, remiss, surpass, conciliating, civility
  • Chapters 34-39:
    abstain, saffron, indisputable, discourse, clamorous, impertinent, tenaciously, degradation
  • Chapters 40-46:
    connivance, demure, credulity, solicitude, pensive, scruple, forebode, indisposition, peremptorily, reprove, abhor, extenuation, duped
  • Chapters 47-50:
    repulsed, vexation, insolent, captious, melancholy, erroneous, clemency, respite, indignation, misconstrued
  • Chapters 51-55:
    trifle, feigning, contemplation
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    Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton In order of appearance, as indicated:
  • Introduction:
    dialectical, enumeration, vernacular, inarticulateness, imponderable, grizzled, trolley, reminiscent, sardonically, garrison, beleaguered, innocuous, incarnation, inertia, plaintive, wraith, diffusion, querulous, querulously
  • Chapters 1-7
    iron monger, curlicue, doohingies, solder, droll, mountebank, catapult, perambulate, elixir, slither, hordes, serpentine, incongruous, effulgence, calligraphy, voluptuous, flourish, calliope
  • Chapter I
    throng, vex, effrontery, reverberations, stubble, poignancy, dormant
  • Chapter II
    incredulous, pantomime, hemlock, threshold
  • Chapter III
    indentured, tangible, imperceptible, calico, sedentary, plaintively, draught
  • Chapter IV
    indolent, gaunt, countenance, supersede, obliterate, perceptible
  • Chapter VI
    sorrel, trudge, perfunctory, ministration, squalid, stoicism
  • Chapter VII
    felicitous, incredulity, recrimination, rouse, vehemence, sinews, listless, compunction, stammer, animosity, ingratiate, regal, affability, sallow
  • Chapter VIII
    untenanted, protuberance, incessant, inexorable, unperturbed, eaves, fidgety, revellers, avow, woo, contemptuously, audacity, glee, exaltation, embodied, excruciating, querulous, drone, slatternly
  • Afterward:
    bungle, hardscrabble, vexation, commodious, luminaries, illicit, sporadic, disparage, claustrophobia, impasse, transgress, submissive, timorous
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    In order of appearance from its three parts:
  • Part I-The Hearth and the Salamander: kerosene, luxuriously, prior, compress, hypnotize, miraculous, illumination, marionette, thimble, distill, gush, disposable, dissolve, drench, apprenticeship, obligate, salamander, exotic, capillary, jolt, phoenix, mourn, glitter, proclivity, cellophane, ignite, asylum, odious, flourish, tamp, cacophony, centrifuge, pantomime, cymbal, incinerator
  • Part II-The Sieve And The Sand:rationalize, ventilator, sieve, suffuse, dentifrice, garment, arsonist, devour, gimmick, praetor, insidious, linguist, contemptible, trifle, disperse
  • Part III-Burning Bright: simmer, reel, fumble, writhe, manikin, instinctive, plummet, flail, phantom, exhalation, contaminate, hover, meteor, musk, wary, simultaneous, convolution, desolation, Ecclesiastes
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    Once and Future King by T.H.White in order of appearance, as indicated:
  • Incipit Liber Primus:The Sword in the Stone: 1-12
    astrolabe, etiquette, hooligan, hurl, snuggery, jesses, moult, calamity, doggedly, joust, girth, zodiac, cabalistic, cloisonne, truncheon, quest, testimonial, gait, portcullis, revere, trident, ponderous, languid, monarch, ravenous, vulnerable, quintain, canter, cumberous, diminish, nigromant, tintinnabulation, dereliction, scimitar, anachronism, barb, imprenetrable, embellish, sinewy, gnarled, venison, sentry, griffin, bramble, authentic, stagger, gangrene, pathology
  • Incipit Liber Primus:The Sword in the Stone:13-24
    compulsory, articulate, novelty, bracken, giddy, haunch, redoutable, suet, breeches, quarry, tansfix, necromancer, tranquil, spectrum, purgatory, vermilion, plaint, obstinate, fledging, inefficient, outrageous, disconsolate, ewer, alienate, devastate, urchin, fretful, decanter, complacent, tyrant, desolate, monastery, pommel
  • Incipit Liber Secundus:The Queen of Air and Darkness 1-14
    carrion, vehement,turbulence, immortal, apprehend, peerage, reminiscent, tonsure, dogged, shod, colleen, shillelagh, secular, chivalry, siege, obstinate, modicum, tuft, heraldic, foliation, miasma, quell, capitulate, carapace, phalanx, pulverize, litter, haggle, grail
  • Incipit Liber Tertius:The Ill-Made Knight 1-10
    maestro, blazoned, sinister, quest, glade, maim, cudgel, senility, panache, dilemma, impediment
  • Incipit Liber Tertius:The Ill-Made Knight 11-25
    bias, caricature, petit point, chaos, effervescence, misogynist, prey, notorious, compel, conniving, rigamarole, cuckold, inscrutable, incognito, menage, conviviality, taciturn, indigo, empathic, fleur-de-lis
  • Incipit Liber Tertius:The Ill-Made Knight 26-45
    sumptuous, banister, ingratiate, infidel, errant, quandry, dogma, baffle, joust, condolence, precipice, beleaguer, coquetry, penance, heresy, turban, tempestuously, recrimination, intrigue, connivance, epigram, pompous, entanglement, magmanimity, callous, buffoon, siege, taboo
  • Incipit Liber Quartus:The Candle in the Wind 1-14
    flamboyant, scrupulous, plait, tenacious, megalomania, cunning, defiance, thwart, ferret, mendicant, scaffold, pinnacle, excommunicate, disreputable, conscription, gargoyle, plantively, commiseration, sniveller, contemptuous, presumptuous, remorselessly, lout, gambled, blandness, carnage, variance, penance, skulk, sneer, fealty, prattle, grapple, dire
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    Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams In order of appearance, as indicated:
  • Part I: Preparations for a Gentleman Caller
  • The characters:
    vitality, paranoiac, endurance, unwittingly, remorseless
  • Production notes:
    tenuous, recurring, interminably, immutable
  • Scene one:
    interfused, implacable, tenement, sinister, proscenium, portieres, doughboy, ineluctably, matriculating, emissary, audible, secretions, masticulation, blanc mange, nimble, Midas touch, shaft
  • Scenes two and three:
    inducted, Victrola, spinster, grudging, patronage, vivacity, sublimation, turgid, gesticulating, pinioned, stupefied
  • Scenes four and five:
    tolling, motley, vault, avert, querulous, importunately, emulate, sensuous, imminent, cowlick, supercilious
  • Scene six:
    unobtrusive, resurrect, cotillion, sashayed, giddy, whims, preposterous, exhilaration, vivacity, paragon, tribulations
  • Scene seven:
    luminous, intimate, limelight, wincing, beleaguered, eclipsed, stumblejohn, decorously, perturbation, oblivious, desolation, rejuvenate, jauntily
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    Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck in order of appearance in five chapter groupings:
  • Chapters I-5: rivulet, dissipate, bayonet, gully, stout, bemused, perplexity, padlock, hasp, chambray, hob-nailed, proboscis, fetlock, disperse, armadillo, embankment, furrow, drought, protrude, quid, shebang, prodigal, beseech, harrow, rafter
  • Chapters 6-10: truculent, noose, sheaf, jalopy, amend, animosity, divert, matt, cantankerous, nuisance, brood, implement, scrounge, voluptuus, assail, globule, squidge, restively, relinquish, tarpaulin
  • Chapters 11-15 corrugated, apprehensively, gnaw, corduroy, wizened, shudder, modulate, sulky, gulch, dwindle, flaxen, vivacious, spatula, accouterment
  • Chapters I6-20: partial, sullen, lanky, chump, vagrant, concession, plateau, listless, pucker, exhortation, parched, hoist, heliograph, swagger, penitent, saunter, mongrel, sneer, disconsolate, tourniquet
  • Chapters 2I-25: quest, paradox, deft, dungarees, infuriate, scrounge, gingham, requisition, rakish, shrill, quarantine
  • Chapters 26-30: insignia, trudge, vigilante, ravenous, placard, dote, nimble
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    Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald in order of appearance:
  • feigned, levity, colossal, supercilious, fractiousness, wan, languidly, infinitesimal, complacency, extemporizing, ether, prodigality, vacuous, florid, corpulent, obstetrical, implored, vinous, rent, asunder, jaunty, punctilious, somnambulatory, molars, benediction, reproach, laudable, meretricious, elude, receded, ceaselessly.

  • Alphabetically: asunder, benediction, ceaselessly, colossal, complacency, corpulent, elude, ether, extemporizing, feigned, florid, fractiousness, infinitesimal, implored, jaunty, languidly, laudable, levity, meretricious, molars, obstetrical, prodigality, punctilious, receded, rent, reproach, supercilious, vacuous, vinous, wan.
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    Guests by Michael Dorris in order of appearance, as indicated:
  • Chapters 1-2: wampum, gleamed, mollusk, canopy, ladle, bluff, substitute, encouragingly, hospitality, flints, frayed, darted, rawhide, coax, ceremony, rustle, bluffing, compromise, accusation, confided, superior, insisted
  • Chapters 3-4: insight, abandoned, predicament, haunches, craving, gnarls, tapered, quivered, shimmering, bough, quills, barriers, blazed, homely, trillium, ricocheted
  • Chapters 5-6: thudded, gusty, divert, wake, contradict, ebbing, rustle, hunched, plaits, squall, emerged
  • Chapters 7-18: roily, chasm, ancestors, coaxed, endure, silhouette, floundered, hovered, embers, decipher
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    Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift - 277 words in order of appearance, as indicated:
  • PART I: The Author gives some account of himself and family...
    Chapters I-III: eminent, hosier, submissive, dexterity, vessels, retinue, disapprobation, conjecturing, victuals, proclamation, countenance, articulate, impudence, fortnight, palisades, prodigious, lucid, oracle, scimitar, magnanimous, dexterity, skirmish, dominion, computation, malice, prostrate, circumspection, flourish, edict
    Chapters IV-V: Mildendo the metropolis of Lilliput described...
    apprehension, infallibly, enterprise, maliciously, prodigious, incessantly, quench
    Chapter VI: Of the Inhabitants of Lilliput:
    compliance, vigilance, cunning, intercede, extenuation, degenerate, notion, docility, clemency, robust, subservience, ingenuous, vindicate, reconcile, intrigue, salutation, procure, impediment, expedient, courtier, precipitancy, envoy, deprive, slacken, insatiable
  • PART II: A voyage to Brobdingnag. A great storm described:
    Chapters I-IV: ague, lanyard, endeavor, lamented, folly, posterity, grievously, dram, intrepidity, oratory, infallibly, hue, discoursing, scabbard, tedious, trifling, dexterous, miser, contriving, alight, vexation, insatiable, demeanour, recompense, drudgery, august, inproprities, virtuosi, contrive, schisms, indignation, swagger, wrestle, excrement, hamper, edifice, cumbersome, pinnacle, hewn
    Chapters V-VIII: Several adventures that happened to the Author
    venture, rogue, espalier, prevail, malefactor, scaffold, rabble, giddiness, varlet, illustrious, sinister, zealous, enquiries, pecuniary, avarice, perfidiousness, inquisitive, vindication, laudable, mercurial, contemptible, assert, propagate, hammock, wistful, lattice, crannies, disconsolate, candour, equipage, impertinence
  • PART III: A voyage to Laputa Balnibarbi, Luggnagg, Clubbdubdrib and Japan
    Chapters I-IV: The Author sets out on his third voyage:
    apprehended, vehemence, humility, provisions, interposition, supplicating, cadence, speculation, precipice, etymology, celestial, effluvia, annihilate, hobgoblin, vivacity, caprice, declivity, rivulet, adamant, repelling, diffuse, tenure, odious, adamantine, contempt, eminent, illustrious, censure, volatile Chapters V-IX: The Author permitted to see the Grand Academy of Lagado
    hermetically, conjuring, tincture, lament, noxious, appropriated, brevity, corrosion, expedient, oblige, abstinence, melancholy, chimaeras, licentiousness, ebullient, peccant, vertigo, corrosive, palliative, infallibly, commodious, quantum, impute, acuteness, compliance, forfeiture, privy, spectre, benevolence, tedious, usurper, palatable, prelate, buffoon, panderism, veneration, pillage, retinue, clemency, infallible, peevish, covetous, morose, perpetuity
  • PART IV: A voyage to the Country of the Holynnhams
    Chapters I-V: The Author sets out as Captain of a ship...
    calenture, buccaneer, desolate, aversion, disdain, wattle, diligent, nuzzle, complaisant, provocative, proficiency, inclemencies, affectation, contrivance, digression, interpose, perjury, indignation, contemplation, clamour, embroil, variance, cunning, abhorrence, insinuate, biassed
    Chapters VI-XII: A continuation of the state of England under Queen Anne...
    profusion, supposition, intemperance, hectoring, sloth, sagacity, preferment, insolence, scrofulous, rickety, congruity, sordid, equitable, rapine, repletion, grimace, coquetry, rudiments, censure, nimble, squalling, vermin, comeliness, vernal, noisome, indocible, assertion, contrive, fourscore, tranquillity, importunate, tediousness, exhortation, censurer, degenerate, conspire, gratis, veracity, inviolable, studious, credulity, judicious, missive, execrable, posterity, reconcilement, smitten
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    I Heard The Owl Call My Name written by Margaret Craven. In order of appearance, as indicated:
  • Part I:Yes, my lord - no, my lord
  • One-Three:
    ordinand, parish, wreathed, exasperating, embers, wheelhouse, arrogance, vicar, cassock, barnacles, potlach, treacherous, amble, gale, muskeg, hover, constable, hoist, confabulation, imminent, tarpaulin
  • Four-Seven:
    rickety, brethren, oppressive, singe, calamity, futility, spawn, fingerling, venison, sustenance, novocaine, shroud, inanimate, sundry, surplice, vestments, chalice
  • Part II: The depth of sadness
  • Chapters Eight-Eleven:
    reverberating, grouse, taunting, lavish, billeted, blustery, stupor, mewing, permeate, exultantly, wail, alder, affirm
  • Part III: Che-kwa-la
  • Twelve-Seventeen:
    prodigious, rector, emitting, ominously, cowering, anthropologist, brogue, ample, amenities, enmity, anachronism, atheist, tenet, communal, macabre, crimson, resolution, eerie, abash
  • Part Four: Come Wolf, come swimmer
  • Chapters Eighteen-twenty-three:
    gale, navigable, ermine, linger, anguish, precede, poignancy, staunch, perceptive, efficacious, matriarch
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    House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende in order of chapter appearance, as indicated:
  • Chapters 1-3:
    despicable, shroud, influenza, penitence, zeal, oratory, atheist, endurance, aberration, translucent, corset, fidget, cataclysm, fanaticism, illusionist, tumult, incomprehensible, shriek, unpretentious, euphoria, clairvoyance, unrequited, ministration, teetotaler, acrostic, requisition, laudanum, solemnity, aquiline, concession, tutelage, rapprochement, privation, indecipherable, grimace, immunization, whimper, dowry, undaunting, gelatinous, suffragette, oligarchy, harangue
  • Chapters 4-6:
    vaudeville, cupola, decipher, deject, pursuit, impeccable, initiation, gargoyle, chilblains, meticulous, apparition, lament, chalice, eccentric, austere, tumult, volition, taxidermist, protracted, cadence, litany, tenement, inflammatory, calamity, apocalyptic, exuberant, ferocity, swarthy, midwife, translucent, premonition, crochet, scoundrel, beneficent, contortion, episode, hacienda, concoct, quell, pendulum, propensity, alms, subversive, parable, sullen, gnome, equilibrium, disconcert, trill, diffuse, implement, chasuble, scrawny, replete, imminent, trough, anguish, parsimonious, smithereens, protract, pompous, reverberation, harangue, pagan, subversive, compassion, diaphanous, amorous, feign, stupefaction, incorrigible, sullen, clandestine, charismatic, grimace, consensus, discreet, anecdote, crche, imperceptible, phantasmagoric, upshot
  • Chapters 7-10:
    heretical, teetotaler, prodigious, delirium, austerity, pelt, languid, outlandish, nauseate, contortion, constraint, emulate, undulate, ignoramus, emaciated, fervent, infinitesimal, nuptial, melancholy, swelter, immutable, nomadic, hallucination, interminable, mockery, exquisite, cloistered, supersede, voluminous, nirvana, omen, glee, denture, salvage, sustain, asphyxiation, imperceptible, remnant, crevice, pretext, simultaneous, unbridled, ferocity, austerity, novitiate, perpetuity, ingenious, necropolis, muffle, digression, sublimate, insomniac, catalyze, courtesan, exploit, zigzag
  • Chapters 11-Epilogue:
    contemplate, improvise, placard, impunity, imperceptible, disconcert, luminous, detoxification, disdainfully, euphoric, languish, sabotage, candor, relinquish, perishable, furtive, dexterity, inflammatory, lucid, excrement, dismantle, bouillon, placid, oblivious, knead, pinafore, trinket, repression, macabre, irrefutable, perish
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    Alphabetically: The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
  • automatically bazaar canteen cockscomb crumple cumulus double-Dutch floorboard goblet holler inherit invention invisible jingling landlord Laundromat linoleum marimba naphtha nimbus Rapunzel scuff soggy somersault temporary zillion
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    Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling in order of appearance, as indicated:
  • The Boy Who Lived: crane (v), shudder, mysterious, tyke, peculiar, drum (v), stunt, imagination, unblinkingly, twitch, spectacles, rummage (v), pinprick, ruffle (v), flock, exasperated, rumble, swish
  • The Vanishing Glass: bonnet, tantrum, frantically, hoodlum, snigger, knickerbockers, boa constrictor, slither, snooze, vigorously, deafening, gibber
  • The Letters From No One: twang, sneer, parchment, dangle, quivering
  • The Keeper of The Keys: squashed, flicker, sizzle, crackpot, expel, wriggle
  • Diagon Alley: swoop, flutter, puncture, draft, cauldron, pub, babble, cobbled, totter, stalagmite, stalactite, ravine, infernal, smuggle, circumstances, collapsible, slimy, gloom, transfiguration, unicorn, phoenix
  • The Journey From Platform Nine and Three-Quarters: swoop, mutter, disgruntle, Blimey, compartment, rattle, astonishment, vault, cram
  • The Sorting Hat: dormitory, anxiously, bowler, scuttle, pompously, humbug, turban
  • The Potion's Master: corridor, wheeze, zombie, quill, dungeon, shimmer, goblin
  • The Midnight Duel: vibrate, snatch, flank, embers, gallop, snout
  • Halloween: trapdoor, parcel, awkward, banquet, griffin, boulder, troll, sway
  • Quidditch: referee, conjure, budge, snitch, meddle
  • The Mirror of Frised: grind, mistletoe, restrict, fascinate, gleaming, invisible, prefect, tureen, engulf, ornate, splendid, nearsighted
  • Nicolas Flamele: dampen, curse, mystify, grumpily, immortal, werewolf, biased, squint, whirl, cloak
  • Norbert The Norwegian Ridgeback: nag, moleskin, bolt, detention, rubbish
  • The Forbidden Forest: astronomy, hourglass, ajar, kindle, leer, stride, stump, hoist, rustling, thrash, lurk
  • Through The Trap Door: horrify, frantically, splutter, enchantment, skim, omen, ghoul, cease, tendril, limp, pounce, nostril
  • The Man With Two Faces: twitch, scurry, token, elixir, stoat, hush, hoarse, abysmal
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  • Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling in alphabetical order:

    a-abstraction, alchemy, allure, ambiguity, amok, annihilate, answers, apt
    b-black, bleak, bloody, bolt, bully
    c-candle, captivate, ceremonies, charm, civilized, compromised, conceal, confusion, conjure, consequences, conundrum, corruption, cringe, crisis, crumble, cupboard, curse
    d-dangerously, darkness, dementor, demon, denouement, despair, destructive, disenchantment, disillusion(ment)
    e-eerie, enemies, enchant, entice, escapist, evil, evolve
    f-facade, fallible, fantastical, fantasy, flaw, folly, forehead, foundations, fright
    g-ghastly, gillyweed, goosebumps, government, grapple, guardian
    h-heart, homocidal, hope, hover, hues, human, humanity
    i-icy, idealized, imperfection, influence, injustice, Inquisitor, insoluble, irrational, irresponsible
    j-justice
    k-keening
    l-live
    m-magic, magical, media, mistakes, mortal, motivation, muggle, murky
    n-nemesis, nonmagical, nonsense
    o-obscure
    p-perceived, petrify, phantom, phenomenon, poisonous, premonition
    q-quake, quest, quiver
    r-raging, rails, randomly, realm, refuge, revelations
    s-scared, scary, sinister, sorcery, spell, superstition, survival
    t-trickery
    u-underworld, unforeseen, unleash, unspoiled, unthinkable
    v-vanish, villain, vulnerable
    w-whodoneit, wizard
    x-(e)xcellence
    y-yells, yelp
    z-zest

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  • Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain in order of appearance (15 words):
    • human nature, absurdity, vernacular, shrewsness, brutality, literal, slavery, ingenuity, civilize, freedom, prejudice, rebirth, imaginative, humanity, superstition.

  • Alphabetically (15 words):