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Death Be Not Proud Terms / Vocabulary

Study the terms and vocabulary in John Gunther's Death Be Not Proud

By Esther Lombardi, About.com

What do the words mean in Death Be Not Proud? How does John Gunther use vocabulary terms to dramatize this death memoir of his son, Johnny? Here are vocabulary words to study and discuss.
  • abstruse

  • alchemist

  • ameliorate

  • amiable

  • analogous

  • animosity

  • anthology

  • benign

  • blanch

  • buoyant

  • colloquial

  • credulous

  • cynical

  • derivative

  • desolate

  • diffidence

  • enmity

  • epitome

  • equivocate

  • erudite

  • eulogy

  • euphemism

  • extricate

  • fastidious

  • ferocity

  • formidable

  • fortuitous

  • heterogeneity

  • hypothesize

  • implacable

  • incessant

  • indomitable

  • ineffable

  • inordinate

  • insidious

  • introspective

  • introvert

  • inveterate

  • irrigate

  • lethargic

  • malady

  • malice

  • marred

  • modicum

  • myriad

  • neurotic

  • oblivion

  • ominous

  • orthodox

  • perfunctory

  • personification

  • placid

  • preclude

  • presumptuous

  • prodigy

  • protrusion

  • quiescent

  • remonstrate

  • resolute

  • respite

  • scrupulous

  • strident

  • stupefy

  • sublime

  • subtle

  • transmutation

  • vehement

  • voracious

  • zeal

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