Pre-reading vocabulary introduction 7-11 of The Pigman

feeling opposition/ hostility

• intimate

• antagonistic

• senile

• repress

clues as to what will happen in the future

• extruciatingly

• senile

• philanthropy

• omen

weaken with age

• severed

• antagonistic

• senile

• mundane

block out of conscienceness

• avocation

• repress

• eerie

• perpetual

painfully

• excruciatingly

• incongruous

• berserk

• eerie

small dish/ appetizer

• omen

• avocation

• prevaricates

• hors d'oeuvres

cut off

• subsidize

• severed

• omen

• senile

familiar; close

• absurd

• berserk

• subsidize

• intimate

act of charity to help a group of people

• mundane

• avocation

• philanthropy

• berserk

ordinary; commonplace

• mundane

• absurd

• incongrouous

• voluptuous