Book #3 Vocab

Heather E.
The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler
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  1. incongruous
    lacking in harmony or compatibility or appropriateness
  2. unctuous
    unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating
  3. mellifluous
    pleasing to the ear
  4. harangue
    a loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion
  5. dissension
    disagreement among those expected to cooperate
  6. jauntily
    in a jaunty fashionable manner
  7. dowdy
    lacking in stylishness or taste
  8. extraneous
    not belonging to that in which it is contained
  9. censorious
    harshly critical or expressing censure
  10. futility
    uselessness as a consequence of having no practical result
Created on Tue May 10 11:51:12 EDT 2011

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