Catcher in the Rye

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  1. ostracize
    expel from a community or group
  2. compulsory
    required by rule
  3. unscrupulous
    without principles
  4. lavish
    characterized by extravagance and profusion
  5. conscientious
    guided by or in accordance with a sense of right and wrong
  6. incognito
    with your identity concealed
  7. putrid
    in an advanced state of decomposition and having a foul odor
  8. capacity
    capability to perform or produce
  9. bourgeois
    belonging to the middle class
  10. inferiority
    the state of being lesser
  11. aristocratic
    belonging to or characteristic of the nobility
  12. boisterous
    noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline
  13. sophisticated
    intellectually appealing
  14. enlightening
    tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance
  15. fiend
    a person motivated by irrational enthusiasm
  16. sacrilegious
    grossly irreverent toward what is considered holy
  17. spontaneous
    said or done without having been planned in advance
  18. digression
    wandering from the main path of a journey
  19. provocative
    serving or tending to excite or stimulate
  20. stimulate
    cause to be alert and energetic
Created on Tue Dec 10 16:12:52 EST 2013 (updated Wed Dec 18 19:54:11 EST 2013)

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