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OUR TOWN words

created 7/25/2008 : last updated 8/24/2008

by Shannon R.(Brooklyn, NY)

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These are words that were taken from Thornton Wilder's play, Our Town. While most of the characters are plain-spoken, Wilder used more challenging words in his stage directions. There are also quite a few words that have become antiquidated since the play was first produced in 1938. Hopefully, familiarity with this list will help your students comprehend the play!

affronted

Also appears in: OUR TOWN words, Chestertown, Marvin's Words, OUR TOWN

alacrity

Also appears in: GMAT Vocabulary A-D, GRE Barron's Part 1, GRE High Frequency Words, Wordmasters 2007-2008 - Trimester 2

anthropology

Also appears in: i give you my word, Vocab 5000 part #1, The Study OF, OUR TOWN words

barren

Also appears in: new 2, GRE great wordlist, GRE Words, Kissinger's Diplomacy

belligerent

Also appears in: GRE Barron's Part 1, GRE Problem Words, Full GRE, B-list

brisk

Also appears in: B-list, keywords, My_B-list, GRE Super 4800 Plus

burgle

Also appears in: ways to steal, OUR TOWN words, Chestertown, Marvin's Words

contrive

Also appears in: Vocab 5000 part #2, GRE Barron's Part 2, valuator, appraiser, critic 2, John Le Carre

crestfallen

Also appears in: GRE Problem Words, Eternal Sunshine, GRE Barron's Part 2, GRE4

diligent

Also appears in: GRE Problem Words, Khamza_Vocabulary_in_VT, S.a.T word's for mrs.crafts week of 1-30-07, weekly list

drenched

Also appears in: OUR TOWN words, Chestertown, Marvin's Words, OUR TOWN

gingham

Also appears in: OUR TOWN words, Chestertown, Marvin's Words, OUR TOWN

handkerchief

Also appears in: OUR TOWN words, Chestertown, Marvin's Words, OUR TOWN

heliotrope

Also appears in: Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Allan Poe2, OUR TOWN words, Chestertown

highboy

Also appears in: OUR TOWN words, Chestertown, Marvin's Words, OUR TOWN

legacy

Also appears in: Philanthropy, TWT, Smirnov Wordlist part 2, GRE Barron's part 4

lugubriousness

Also appears in: OUR TOWN words, Chestertown, Marvin's Words, OUR TOWN

meditatively

Also appears in: OUR TOWN words, Chestertown, Marvin's Words, OUR TOWN

omniscient

Also appears in: Khamza_Vocabulary_in_VT, i give you my word, Fianl, omniscient

parlor

Also appears in: Tuck Everlasting vocabulary chapters 11-16., OUR TOWN words, Chestertown, Marvin's Words

phosphate

Also appears in: OUR TOWN words, Chestertown, 20080910, Marvin's Words

pince-nez

Also appears in: remarkable, commodious, BR#3, OUR TOWN words, Chestertown

radiant

Also appears in: radiant, wisfully, beauteous, overwhelmed

relations

Also appears in: OUR TOWN words, Chestertown, Marvin's Words, OUR TOWN

retired

Also appears in: OUR TOWN words, Chestertown, Marvin's Words, OUR TOWN

sassy

Also appears in: My_words_s, Toni Simpson, G.T. WORD OF THOUGHT, Postive words to discribe someone

savant

Also appears in: GRE words, S-list, Personality, GRE Barron's part 5

seize

Also appears in: 2, spirits rebellious, seize, My wordlist

sentimentality

Also appears in: OUR TOWN words, Chestertown, Marvin's Words, OUR TOWN

spectacles

Also appears in: glasses, eyeglasses, spectacles, imagery, vision, sight, Greek and Latin Root Analysis 10, OUR TOWN words

torrent

Also appears in: Daily Words, Daily Wordsk, practise test 2, practice test 3

traipse

Also appears in: Words for Walk, intuition, Jan./Feb./wordmaster list, Wordmasters 5th Grade

trellis

Also appears in: Hiaasen "Lucky You", OUR TOWN words, Chestertown, Jared

unobtrusively

Also appears in: OUR TOWN words, Chestertown, Marvin's Words, OUR TOWN

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