Of Mice and Men Chapters 1 and 2

Scoff

• A phlegmy cough
• To speak in a mocking way

Pugnacious

• Quick to argue
• One with a stubby nose

Ominously

• Seeing into the future
• In a threatening way

Derogatory

• Critical and disparaging
• A hellish place

Flounced

• Flowy and breezy
• To move in an exaggerated way

Plaintively

• Mournfully
• Light-hearted

Decisive

• Able to make decisions
• Unable to make decisions

Complacently

• Perfectly placed
• With self-satisfaction, smugly

Junctures

• Questions
• Points of union, connections, point in time

Debris

• Ease of doing an action
• Fragments of something