Vocabulary from Life of Pi by Yann Martel for VOCAB U.

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A recommended book, Life of Pi by Yann Martel, gives the student the opportunity to learn SAT-College Prep vocabulary in context. We have selected 98 words and their chapters to encourage study.

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Life of Pi - 98 words are listed by chapter (in the way the teacher contributor gave us references to 99 chapters.) Alphabetical listing (98 words):

Chapter 1 through 4 (14 words):
AN - purveyor, obscurely, exemplary
1 - in situ, indolence, elicited, illustrious
3 - ludicrous, credible
4 - incessant, profusion, abiding, compulsion, discernment

Chapter 5 through 24 (14 words):
5 - aspiring
14 - amenable
17 - unremitting, adversity, deportment, petulant, placidly
18 - hovel, entailed
20 - guttural
23 - secular, askance, piety, apoplectic

Chapter 25 through 45 (17 words):
25 - depravity
33 - sullenly, plausible
38 - dyspeptic
41 - protruded
43 - preceding, carrion, diligent, indiscriminate, aversion
45 - imperceptible, bask, remonstrations, revulsion, empathy, callous, amicably

Chapter 46 through 53 (17 words):
46 - chromatic, incongruously, dilated, formidable, forlorn, coherence, ineffectually, invigorating
49 - conundrum, insouciant
50 - dire
51 - supplication
53 - lucidity, oppressive, poignancy, rufous, voraciously

Chapter 54 through 70 (18 words):
54 - erratic, attrition
55 - radical
56 - unerring
58 - cryptic, injunction, gastronomic
60 - throe
61 - sentient, sanguinary
62 - lethargic, marred
63 - putrid, fitful
64 - disfiguring
67 - multitude, gelatinous
70 - forbearance

Chapter 71 through 99 (18 words):
71 - afflicting, pivotal
72 - ordnance
74 - consecrated
79 - incongruously
81 - sustenance
89 - emaciated
90 - infernal, obtuse, conjures
91 - amply
92 - delusion, olfactory, desalinated, rote, turmoil
99 - feral, reprieve

A BIG THANK YOU to Kara Penna, English Teacher at Hilton High School in Hilton, NY for being our teacher contributor for Life of Pi.

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