Of Mice and Men Vocabulary

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loss of hope; hopelessness

• lumbered

• pantomime

• yammered

• despair

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pleased, especially with oneself or one's merit, advantages, situation, etc. often without awareness of some potential danger or defect; self-satisfied

• contorted

• complacently

• scoff

• pugnacious

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a bundle, usually of bedding and other possessions, carried by a hobo

• bindle

• periscope

• triumphantly

• contorted

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anything that restrains or curbs

• ominously

• deliberately

• bridled

• scoff

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to become useless or to be stored away as useless

• derogatory

• lumbered

• liniment

• majesty

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twisted in a violent manner; distorted

• contorted

• majesty

• mollified

• deliberately

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gloomily or sullenly ill-humored, as a person or a mood

• ominously

• complacently

• morosely

• scoff

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carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional

• pugnacious

• ominously

• recumbent

• deliberately

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significant gesture without speech

• pantomime

• recumbent

• contorted

• ominously

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tending to lesson the merit or reputation of a person or thing; disparaging; depreciatory

• derogatory

• liniment

• majesty

• pugnacious

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an optical instrument for viewing objects that are above the level or direct sight or in an otherwise obstructed field of vision

• yammered

• triumphantly

• periscope

• majesty

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a liquid or semiliquid preparation for rubbing on or applying to the skin for first-aid

• recumbent

• scoff

• Liniment

• Mollified

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lying down; reclining; leaning

• recumbent

• contorted

• deliberately

• morosely

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regal, lofty, or stately dignity; imposing character; grandeur

• mollified

• yammered

• triumphantly

• majesty

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to speak derisively; mock; jeer

• pantomime

• periscope

• mollified

• scoff

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to soften in feeling or temper, as a person; pacify; appease

• pugnacious

• mollified

• majesty

• derogatory

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exulting over victory; rejoicing over success; exultant

• triumphantly

• majesty

• contorted

• bridled

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portending evil or harm; foreboding; threatening; inauspicious

• morosely

• periscope

• ominously

• complacently

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to whine or complain

• deliberately

• liniment

• yammered

• pugnacious

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inclined to quarrel or fight readily; quarrelsome; belligerent; combative

• mollified

• scoff

• bindle

• pugnacious