The Book Thief List 1 (lbp) : Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus

She wasn’t delivering her children to the higher echelons of Munich, but a foster home had apparently been found, and if nothing else, the new family could at least feed the girl and the boy a little better, and educate them properly.

illustrious

The book thief had struck for the first time—the beginning of an illustrious career. Growing.

hiatus

I should hasten to admit, however, that there was a considerable hiatus between the first stolen book and the second.

vehement

It was so vehement and prolific.

ponderous

(The human child—so much cannier at times than the stupefyingly ponderous adult.)

induce

When Liesel finally had a bath, after two weeks of living on Himmel Street, Rosa gave her an enormous, injury-inducing hug.

raucous

Evenings in the small kitchen were raucous, without fail.

catalyst

One of them, the infamous Rudy, would soon become Liesel’s best friend, and later, her partner and sometime catalyst in crime.

nefarious

Frau Diller was a sharp-edged woman with fat glasses and a nefarious glare.

lacerate

Shaped like a long, broken arm, the road contained several houses with lacerated windows and bruised walls.

infamy

As we both know, Liesel wasn’t on hand on Himmel Street when Rudy performed his act of childhood infamy.

luminary

Had the apprentice been reading the complete works of Goethe or any other such luminary, that was what would have sat in front of them.

morbidity

Not to mention the morbidity of the subject.

vital

Types of shovels, picks, gloves, and so forth were itemized, as well as the vital need to properly maintain them.

seethe

He watched her boil over with anger.

Clouds were filing in now, big and clumsy, and more kids were calling out to her, watching her seethe.

flippant

If you were being flippant about it, you’d say that all it took was a little bit of fire, really, and some human shouting to go with it.

crux

It’s no time to be half watching, turning around, or checking the stove—because when the book thief stole her second book, not only were there many factors involved in her hunger to do so, but the act of stealing it triggered the crux of what was to come.

overzealous

You see, people may tell you that Nazi Germany was built on anti-Semitism, a somewhat overzealous leader, and a nation of hate- fed bigots, but it would all have come to nothing had the Germans not loved one particular activity:

succumb

A few times, Papa nearly slept, succumbing to the itchy fatigue in his eyes and the wilting of his head.

adhere

Later, they read some more in bed, adhering to the tradition of circling the words she didn’t know and writing them down.

prolific

That particular book was a little longer, so Liesel was able to get through it only nine times, her pace increasing ever so slightly by the end of such prolific readings.

fervent

Rosa Hubermann was a great imitator, and a fervent one.

partisan

This particular year, with the development of the war and Hitler’s current victorious position, the Nazi partisans of Molching wanted the celebration to be especially befitting.

incinerate

It would have come as no surprise if certain members of the party had gone away and published a thousand or so books or posters of poisonous moral matter simply to incinerate them.

admonish

Admonishment looks similar to scolding. The person counseling the behavior usually does so with firmness, perhaps anger or frustration.

She didn’t admonish him at all, which, as you know, was highly unusual.

grotesque

Or something grotesque and alien that had somehow landed miraculously in the middle of town and needed to be snuffed out, and fast.

kinetic

The sound was kinetic humans, flowing, charging up.

consummate

Related words indicate a sense of completion in the word consummate: sum or

He was performing now what is called a Schreierei— a consummate exhibition of passionate shouting—warning the crowd to be watchful, to be vigilant, to seek out and destroy the evil machinations plotting to infect the motherland with its deplorable ways.

culpability

He received a torch from an accomplice and lit the mound, which dwarfed him in all its culpability.

ominous

It had been crushed among the excitement and was bleeding dark and ominous through his sock.

melee

He was just an animal, hurt among the melee of its own kind, soon to be trampled by it.

precarious

As they walked past the precarious town hall shadows, the book thief winced.

attribute

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euphoric

Eleven-year-old relief was euphoric.

benign

If not kind, at least not harmful: benign.

Another benign visit to the mayor’s house.

surreal

The surreal experience with the roomful of books and the stunned, broken woman walked alongside her.

rebuke

She began to rebuke herself.

exemplify

To exemplify that particular situation, we can look to a cool day in late June.

render

Once, words had rendered Liesel useless, but now, when she sat on the floor, with the mayor’s wife at her husband’s desk, she felt an innate sense of power.

transcend

A good hiding transcends the divides of age.

diabolical

After approximately fifteen minutes, the diabolical plan bore its fruit, so to speak.

incongruous

In math, incongruent lines are not even or compatible.

Fritz Hammer and Andy Schmeikl wanted to keep it, but Arthur Berg, showing his incongruous moral aptitude, had a better idea.

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