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J.D. Salinger's "Catcher in the Rye" Chapters 1-14

Thu Jan 14 12:47:06 EST 2010
Vocabulary study list for J.D. Salinger's "Catcher in the Rye" (Chapters 1-14).
ostracize
The whole team ostracized me the whole way back on the train.
reversible
I only had on my reversible and no gloves or anything.
recuperate
"I'm still recuperating," I told her.
nonchalant
I just got very cool and nonchalant.
rile
You couldn't rile him too easily.
putrid
The band was putrid.
gory
I didn't want a bunch of stupid rubbernecks looking at me when I was all gory.
torso
He always walked around in his bare torso because he thought he had a damn good build.
icicle
I don't want you to get the idea she was a goddam icicle or something, just because we never necked or horsed around much.
inhale
She inhaled and all, but she didn't wolf the smoke down, the way most women around her age do.
incognito
I'm traveling incognito," I said.
complicate
I mean it's pretty complicated."
fascinate
It partly scared me and it partly fascinated me.
touchy
They're quite touchy about anything like that, especially my father.
optional
"You chose to write about them for the optional essay question.
rostrum
Hardly anybody laughed out loud, and old Ossenburger made out like he didn't even hear it, but old Thurmer, the headmaster, was sitting right next to him on the rostrum and all, and you could tell he heard it.
aggravate
Boy, he could really be aggravating sometimes.
pacifist
I'm a pacifist, if you want to know the truth.
giggle
I like to be somewhere at least where you can see a few girls around once in a while, even if they're only scratching their arms or blowing their noses or even just giggling or something.
convertible
My mother saw them in the village a lot, because Jane used to drive to market with her mother in this LaSalle convertible they had.
qualm
"Do you have any particular qualms about leaving Pencey?"
liberate
"Liberate yourself from my viselike grip."
suave
I said it suave as hell.
stance
It was always just a little bit open, especially when she got in her golf stance, or when she was reading a book.
gripe
He came in griping about how cold it was out.
ironic
Which is really ironic.
fracture
He probably was scared he'd fractured my skull or something when I hit the floor.
burlesque
She used to be a burlesque stripper or something.
illiterate
I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
analyze
It stinks, if you analyze it.
chuckle
He started chuckling like a madman.
chisel
"You're trying to chisel me."
lagoon
I live in New York, and I was thinking about the lagoon in Central Park, down near Central Park South.
foil
I left all the foils and equipment and stuff on the goddam subway.
annex
"She's waiting in the Annex."
concentrate
Anyway, finally I had to come right out and tell him that I had to write a composition for Stradlater, and that he had to clear the hell out, so I could concentrate.
monotonous
He started talking in this very monotonous voice, and picking at all his pimples.
digest
I didn't want to go home or anything till they got it and thoroughly digested it and all.
automatic
I pictured myself coming out of the goddam bathroom, dressed and all, with my automatic in my pocket, and staggering around a little bit.
rotten
Boy, did I feel rotten.
depressed
It makes me so depressed I go crazy.
imitate
I started imitating one of those guys in the movies.
academic
It has a very good academic rating, Pencey.
ignore
I ignored him.
gorgeous
He always shaved himself twice, to look gorgeous.
crude
It was a very crude thing to do, in chapel and all, but it was also quite amusing.
technique
The trouble was, I knew that guy Stradlater's technique.
communicate
"Have you yourself communicated with them?"
depress
undertaking
He made a pot of dough in the undertaking business after he got out of Pencey.

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