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140 vocabulary words for A Man Without a Country in order of appearance, as indicated:
Chapter 1 pp. 1-5: distressed, obscene, induced, episode, auditor, suspenders, gallows
Chapter 2 pp. 7-20: twerp, remotely, vulnerabilities, whoopee, petroleum, smithereens, liberalism, conservatism, socialists, elevate, belied, continental, Spanish Inquisition, Nazi, swastika, pagan, derivative, truism, decree, loathsome, anarchist, cannery, massacre, incendiary, pyre, hack
Chapter 3 pp. 23-37: transvestite, hermaphrodite, intimidate, anthropology. ethnographer, imperialist, despondent, battle-axe, incremental, infinity, axis, pessimistic, parapet, malicious, rapier
Chapter 4 pp. 39-45: prohibition, notoriously, fossil fuels, entrapment, salubrious, squandered
Chapter 5 pp. 47-52: Freud, polyglot, wretched, tempest, retrospect, genocide
Chapter 6 pp. 55-62: Luddite, newfangled, contraptions, Poseidon, Hindu, mucilage, Urdu
Chapter 7 pp. 65-77: trillionaires, epidemic, be-bop, atrocity, arrogance, prosperity, Saddam Hussein, humane, bayonet, parenthetically, incapacitated, pretext
Chapter 8 pp. 79-93: humanist, incidentally, Aristotle, Hitler, Ivan the Terrible, ordeal, plague, asylum, inflationary, free market, boisterous, rigged, disenfranchised, Einstein, Mark Twain, shrapnel, napalm, psychopathic, obstetrician, lampoonery, satire, lathered
Chapter 9 pp. 95-103: Confucius, Marco Polo, Sermon on the Mount, The Beatitudes, clinical, congenital, syndrome, decisive, parody
Chapter 10 pp. 105-112: Lucrezia Borgia, Abbie Hoffman, Guantanamo, coup d\\\’etat, precipice
Chapter 11 pp. 115-122: uranium, tabloid, denounce, celibate, George Bernard Shaw, thermodynamic, epitaph
Chapter 12 pp. 125-135: pulley, Groucho Marx, at bay, calamity, daub, Mount Vesuvius, Battle of Waterloo, Saul Steinberg
Requiem: p.137 requiem
Author\\\’s Note: pp. 141-145: squeegee, Origami, four score, zoology, oeuvre, jeux d\\\’esprit (games of the mind), beguiled
Thank you Jan Cook, a former teacher at Sacred Heart Prep in Atherton, California for being the teacher contributor at www.myVocabulary.com for a vocabulary word list for A Man Without a Country written by Kurt Vonnegut
