Beautiful Boy, Chap. 5-6

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  1. don
    a teacher or tutor, especially at Cambridge or Oxford
    …dons an orange parka…..
  2. brandish
    move or swing back and forth
    He brandishes a wooden spoon.
  3. knave
    a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel
    “Unhand that knave,” he says to me
  4. plight
    a situation from which extrication is difficult
    ….wretched sorrow of your plight….
  5. loath
    strongly opposed
    I loathed joint custody
  6. antilog
    the number of which a given number is the logarithm
    But homes is an antilogy
  7. presuppose
    take for granted or as a given
    It presupposed that children can do just as well when they are divided between two homes.
  8. stigmatize
    condemn or openly brand as disgraceful
    before that time, divorce was difficult, stigmatized, and rarer….
  9. diminutive
    very small
    She is diminutive with silver hair….
  10. elusive
    skillful at evading capture
    The absent parent may well seem elusive than the furniture.
  11. melancholy
    a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed
    …but even the fun of the new baby is tempered by a low-grade melancholia.
  12. cacophony
    loud confusing disagreeable sounds
    …our house is a cacophony of singing, wailing….
  13. baguette
    a long, narrow loaf of French bread
    Brutus at one point steals a picnicker’s baguette.
  14. kelp
    large brown seaweeds having fluted leathery fronds
    …decorated with kelp and seashells.
  15. sagacious
    acutely insightful and wise
    ….and sagacious than he might have been otherwise.
  16. auspicious
    indicating favorable circumstances and good luck
    It is an auspicious beginning.
  17. enamor
    attract
    ….are enamored of their big brother….
  18. mod
    relating to a recently developed fashion or style
    ….a mod assemblage of amateur musicians….
  19. formidable
    extremely impressive in strength or excellence
    …for many kids the high of riding formidable Pacific waves isn’t enough.
  20. elate
    fill with high spirits
    When Nic returns, he is elated.
  21. obdurate
    stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing
    Nic is obdurate.
  22. camaraderie
    the quality of affording easy familiarity and sociability
    He enjoys the camaraderie of the team.
Created on Thu Feb 02 17:44:49 EST 2012 (updated Fri Feb 03 22:34:57 EST 2012)

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