A Separate Peace Vocabulary

1.      tacit (adj.) — unspoken; not expressed or declared openly

2.      vibrantly (adv.) — vigorously; energetically; throbbingly filled with life

3.      capacious (adj.) — roomy; spacious

4.      contentious (adj.) — quarrelsome

5.      droll (adj.) — amusing in an odd or ironic way

6.      prodigious (adj.) — huge or powerful

7.      rhetorically (adv.) — as if asking a question only for effect, without expecting an answer

8.      anarchy (n) — lawlessness; disorder

9.      solace (n) — something that comforts

10.  vulnerable (adj.) — sensitive

11.  detonate (v.) — explode violently and noisily

12.  delirious (adj.) — in a state of mental confusion; hallucinating

13.  ludicrous (adj.) — laughably absurd

14.  erratic (adj.) — irregular; not following a normal pattern

15.  contemptuously (adv.) — scornfully

16.  discern (v) — to recognize

17.  vagaries (n) — odd or unexpected actions or ideas

18.  culminate (v) — to bring to its highest point of interest

19.  aesthete [ĕs' thēt] (n) — someone highly sensitive to art and beauty; someone who puts on such a sensitivity

20.  querulous (adj.) — inclined to find fault; complaining

21.  surmise (v) — to guess; to imagine or infer something without conclusive evidence

22.  guileful (adj.) — deceitful; tricky

23.  incongruity (n) — lack of fitness or appropriateness

24.  decrepit (adj.) — broken down or worn out by old age or long use

25.  impervious (adj.) — not affected by

26.  parody (n) — poor or weak imitation

27.  assimilate (v) — to absorb into one's thinking