Vocab

Repugnance
a.Noun. Strong dislike, distaste, or antagonism.
b. “All their repugnance was contained in the neat balance” (8)
c. I have a strong repugnance for bad smells.

Abate
a. Verb. To reduce in degree or intensity.
b.“Shadrack was suffering from a blinding headache, which was not abated by the comfort he felt when the policeman pulled his hands away from what he thought was a permanent entanglement with his shoelaces” (13)
c. The shading abated to white.

d.

Unequivocal- 
a. Adjective. Leaving no doubt. 
b. “A black so definite, so unequivocal, it astonished him” (13).
c. His mother’s orders where so unequivocal he had to do them.
d. http://www.findingtruthmatters.org/articles/bigwords/big-words-unequivocal.jpg

Quell
a. Verb. To thoroughly overwhelm and reduce to submission or passivity; quiet; pacify.
b. “Who could quell a roustabout with a look, if she were really custard, then there was a chance that Nel was too” (23)
c. I quelled the opponent’s trash talk with a sweet goal.
d.

Guile
a. Noun. Sly or cunning intelligence. 
b.“Her flirting was sweet, low and guileless” (42)
c. I used my guile while steeling cookies from the cookie jar.

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Vitriol
a. Noun. Cruel and bitter criticism.
b. “Made them defend her and protect her from any vitriol that newcomers or their wives might spill” (45)
c. I had to stand there and take it as vitriol spill out of the mouth of the coach.

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Fastidious-
a. Adjective. Having high and often capricious standards; difficult to please.
b. “Hannah was fastidious about whom she slept with” (43)
c. The food critic had a very fastidious pallet.
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Insouciant- 
a. Adjective. Lighthearted unconcerned.
b. “Nel’s grimy intractable children looked like three wild things happily insouciant in the May shine” (96)
c. I was insouciant about getting mud on my clothes when I was little.

Pariah- 
a. Noun. One that is despised or rejected; outcast. 
b.“She was pariah, then, and knew it” (122)
c. The girl was a pariah.
d. http://www.corbisimages.com/images/67/18BACC3C-C3B8-4B59-A5E3-7ADB8158397A/42-15319791.jpg

 Contrive 
a. Verb. To form or create in an artistic or ingenious manner. 
b. “Their evidence against Sula was contrived, but their conclusions about her were not” (118)
c. We contrived a great goal celebration as we were fishing.