The Red Badge of Courage: Chapters 19–24

by Stephen Crane
Henry Fleming is a young Union private during the Civil War. After fleeing from battle, he'll do anything for a second chance to prove his bravery.

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  1. grotesque
    distorted and unnatural in shape or size
    Other men, punched by bullets, fell in grotesque agonies.
  2. disclose
    make known to the public information previously kept secret
    The men, staring intently, began to wait for some of the distant walls of smoke to move and disclose to them the scene.
  3. desperation
    a state in which all hope is lost or absent
    Here, crouching and cowering behind some trees, the men clung with desperation, as if threatened by a wave.
  4. indignation
    a feeling of righteous anger
    The private felt a sudden unspeakable indignation against his officer.
  5. relinquish
    turn away from; give up
    They jerked at it, stout and furious, but the color sergeant was dead, and the corpse would not relinquish its trust.
  6. depleted
    no longer sufficient
    By the time the depleted regiment had again reached the first open space they were receiving a fast and merciless fire.
  7. perilous
    fraught with danger
    In the clouded haze men became panicstricken with the thought that the regiment had lost its path, and was proceeding in a perilous direction.
  8. beset
    assail or attack on all sides
    At this cry a hysterical fear and dismay beset the troops.
  9. proximity
    the property of being close together
    From the moment's glimpse, it was derived that they had been unaware of the proximity of their dark suited foes or had mistaken the direction.
  10. vexation
    anger produced by some annoying irritation
    His tousled hair streamed wildly, and his face was dark with vexation and wrath.
  11. oblivious
    lacking conscious awareness of
    These intent regiments apparently were oblivious of all larger purposes of war, and were slugging each other as if at a matched game.
  12. undiminished
    not lessened
    His emaciated regiment bustled forth with undiminished fierceness when its time came.
  13. obdurate
    stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing
    But at one part of the line there was a grim and obdurate group that made no movement.
  14. intermittent
    stopping and starting at irregular intervals
    THE roarings that had stretched in a long line of sound across the face of the forest began to grow intermittent and weaker.
  15. upheaval
    a violent disturbance
    He had dwelt in a land of strange, squalling upheavals and had come forth.
Created on Mon Feb 11 15:45:36 EST 2013 (updated Tue Aug 05 16:53:32 EDT 2025)

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