Of Mice and Men ch 2 Grade 10

Lara B.
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  1. lade
    fill or place a load on
    At about ten o’clock in the morning the sun threw a bright dust-laden bar through one of the side windows, and in and out of the beam flies shot like rushing stars.
  2. flapper
    an unconventional young woman in the 1920s
    You was gonna leave your big flapper shut and leave me do the talkin’.
  3. flounce
    walk in an emphatic or exaggerated way
    George stared at his solitaire lay, and then he flounced the cards together and turned around to Lennie.
  4. mollify
    cause to be more favorably inclined
    “Damn right he don’t,” said George, slightly mollified, “not if he wants to stay workin’ long.”
  5. liniment
    a topical liquid that relieves muscle stiffness and pain
    He unrolled his bindle and put things on the shelf, his razor and bar of soap, his comb and bottle of pills, his liniment and leather wristband.
  6. pugnacious
    ready and able to resort to force or violence
    His glance was at once calculating and pugnacious.
  7. scoff
    laugh at with contempt and derision
    And these shelves were loaded with little articles, soap and talcum powder, razors and those Western magazines ranch men love to read and scoff at and secretly believe.
  8. plaintively
    in a manner expressing sorrow
    “I don’t want no trouble,” he said plaintively.
  9. slough
    cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers
    He’d slough me.
  10. complacently
    in a self-satisfied manner
    Lennie, who had been following the conversation back and forth with his eyes, smiled complacently at the compliment.
  11. scourge
    something causing misery or death
    “Says ‘positively kills lice, roaches and other scourges.’
Created on Tue May 14 18:31:43 EDT 2013

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