Chapter 3 vocabulary

•1.Petrified-to benumb or paralyze with astonishment, horror, or other strong emotion. Ex. I became petrified when I saw the horrible car accident.
2.Existence-continuance in being or life; life. Ex. The rat’s mere existence was unacceptable in my eyes.
3.Monocle-an eyeglass for one eye. Ex. The monocle that the psychiatrist wore made him look all the more knowledgeable.
4.Crematory-a furnace for cremating, burning people. Ex. The fume build up in the Nazi crematories were released out of the enormous chimney’s protruding in the sky.
5.Agony-extreme and generally prolonged pain; intense physical or mental suffering. Ex. The agony of being stabbed in the torso did not subside until the doctors began pumping be with a strong sedative.
6.Humanity-all human beings collectively; the human race. Ex. Humanity is set to experience changes of unimaginable proportions in the year 2012.
7.Convulsively-to shake violently; agitate. Ex. Prisoners of war often shake convulsively at night when they are thinking about the atrocities of war and of losing friends.
8.Wreaths-any ringlike, curving, or curling mass or formation. Ex. During the Nazi regime, Jewish bodies were arranged in giant wreaths at concentration camps.
9.Nocturnal-done, occurring, or coming at night. Ex. Owls and bats are a few examples of nocturnal animals.
10.Bestial-without reason or intelligence; brutal; inhuman. Ex. Jewish extermination was a bestial example of how to create fair and cleansed society.
11.Threshold-any place or point of entering or beginning. Ex. The threshold to the house was painted over with a beautiful mural.
12.Lucidity-easily understood; completely intelligible or comprehensible. Ex. The instruction on how to set up the computer programming system had a great deal of lucidity.
13.Oblivion-the state of being completely forgotten or unknown. Ex. The man threatened to blast the other man into oblivion if he did not hand over his wallet and car keys.
14.Harangued-a scolding or a long or intense verbal attack; diatribe. Ex. The harangued speech that McCarthy directed towards many of the federal government’s employees resulted in an official censure of his credibility.
15.Convalescent-to recover health and strength after illness; make progress toward recovery of health. Ex. The convalescent young man took only a few weeks to recover from his leg injury.
16.Colic-pertaining to or affecting the colon or the bowels. Ex. The colic infection was not as serious as the woman initially thought.
17.Clout-a blow, esp. with the hand; cuff. Ex. The bully gave him a painful clout on the head.
18.Reverie-a state of dreamy meditation or fanciful musing. Ex. The young soul experienced a rather enjoyable reverie of the times of the 1960s counterculture and its drug use.
19.Compulsory-required; mandatory; obligatory. Ex. The compulsory movement that the boy made when his foster mother tried to hug him was due to the fact that his birth mother used to beat him on a daily basis.
20.Disperse-to drive or send off in various directions; scatter. Ex. Different types of birds disperse long distances on a seasonal basis.