Study Guide
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
