VOCAB 8 CONTEXT

As Police Commissioner it was my duty to deal with all kinds of wretched misery and hideous and unspeakable infamy, and I should have been worse than a coward if I had shrunk from doing what was necessary; but there would have been no use whatever in my reading novels detailing all this misery and squalor and crime, or at least in reading them as a steady thing.― Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children

• squalid

• diaspora

• pelt

• garrulous

• morose

“Please, trust me, I most definitely can be cheerful. I can be amiable. Agreeable. Approachable. And that's only the A's. Just don't ask me to be nice. Nice has nothing to do with me.”

― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

• Affable

• Abate

• Auspicious

• Abject

• Aesthetic 

“So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad, use _______. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do. It also won’t do in your essays.”― N.H. Kleinbaum, Dead Poets Society

• morose

• abject

• melee

• contrite

“Friendship improves happiness, and reduces misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief”

― Marcus Tullius Cicero

• abates

• contrites

• pelts

• trepidates

That she will find a man. What she doesn’t yet know: the cold, the backbreaking drudgery of the factorias, the loneliness of the community, that she will never again live in Santo Domingo, her own heart. What else she doesn’t know: that the man next to her would end up being her husband and the father of her two children, that after two years together he would leave her, her third and final heartbreak, and she would never love again.”― Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

• diaspora

• affable

• squalid

• melee

“The rain to the wind said,

You push and I'll beat.'

They so smote the garden bed

That the flowers actually knelt,

And lay lodged--though not dead.

I know how the flowers felt.”

― Robert Frost

• pelt

• abate

• melee

• fulminate

• pester

“Men respect the silent; they despise the _________. - Marius”

― Conn Iggulden, The Gates of Rome

• garrulous

• morose

• contrite

• affable

“Only the cruelest hunters set their traps with terror and dread.”

― Nenia Campbell, Black Beast

• trepidation

• solipsism

• mirth

• respite

“A roar cut through the commotion: a booming growl, a noise that might come out of a she-bear protecting a cub. It was Alec- and suddenly bodies were flying everywhere.”

― James Dashner, The Kill Order

• melee

• trepidation

• diaspora

• folly

“I think it’s dangerous to let go of a transgression when the transgressor is not remorseful.”

― Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries: A Memoir

• contrite

• morose

• affable

• garrulous