The 25 Books Most Assigned by High School Teachers in 2021: Stories of Ourselves

VOCABULARY LISTS IN THIS COLLECTION:

• "The Hollow of the Three Hills" by Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Jump to activity:
  • smitten
  • untimely
  • blight
  • decrepit
  • plight
  • mantle
  • impious
  • rite
  • gild
  • whence
  • crone
  • tarry
  • countenance
  • sepulcher
  • ordained
  • intimate
  • tidings
  • shroud
  • vicissitude
  • render
  • despondent
  • querulous
  • woe
  • monotonous
  • mirth
  • scourge
  • resound
  • unprovoked
  • auditor
  • perfidy
  • desolate
  • fitful
  • fain
  • obscure
  • bode
  • doleful
  • wayfarer
  • tread
  • array
  • anathema

• "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe

  Jump to activity:
  • pervade
  • goad
  • sublime
  • insoluble
  • precipitous
  • sojourn
  • importunate
  • malady
  • manifest
  • munificent
  • trifling
  • paradoxical
  • specious
  • tarn
  • phantasmagoric
  • trepidation
  • pallid
  • inordinate
  • prevailing
  • gossamer
  • abeyance
  • concision
  • enunciation
  • insipid
  • anomalous
  • abhorrence
  • supposititious
  • turret
  • palpable
  • emaciated
  • dirge
  • educe
  • hypochondriac
  • fervid
  • seraph
  • pinion
  • rampart
  • discordant
  • pertinacity
  • interment
  • cadaverous
  • miasma
  • prolixity
  • vivacity
  • parley
  • prodigious
  • brazen
  • upbraid
  • ponderous
  • tumultuous

• "The Signalman" by Charles Dickens

  Jump to activity:
  • idle
  • dint
  • notch
  • precipitate
  • sallow
  • barbarous
  • rivet
  • daunt
  • peruse
  • saturnine
  • latent
  • intently
  • crude
  • incongruity
  • vigilant
  • discourse
  • asunder
  • impart
  • convey
  • gesticulate
  • abhorrence
  • impress
  • specter
  • lament
  • vehemence
  • derive
  • earnestly
  • ruminate
  • calamity
  • conscientious
  • oppressed
  • extremity
  • avert
  • confound
  • incidental
  • disclosure
  • painstaking
  • apprise
  • traverse
  • heed

• "The Happy Prince" by Oscar Wilde

  Jump to activity:
  • gilded
  • hilt
  • pinafore
  • coquette
  • domestic
  • trifle
  • alight
  • lofty
  • coarse
  • embalm
  • withered
  • agility
  • steeple
  • distinguished
  • commission
  • bulrush
  • cataract
  • garret
  • pomegranate
  • amber
  • ebony
  • listless
  • leaden
  • shabby
  • proclamation

• "The Yellow Wall Paper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Jump to activity:
  • felicity
  • hysterical
  • tonic
  • congenial
  • stimulus
  • draught
  • sprawling
  • lurid
  • hinder
  • whim
  • riotous
  • wharf
  • loll
  • bulbous
  • impertinence
  • bureau
  • gouge
  • verily
  • conspicuous
  • fretful
  • querulous
  • debase
  • wallow
  • frieze
  • interminable
  • grotesque
  • earnest
  • impressionable
  • undulate
  • reproachful
  • temperament
  • florid
  • arabesque
  • subdued
  • conscientious
  • skulk
  • patent
  • derision
  • misconstrue
  • plantain

• "The Son's Veto" by Thomas Hardy

  Jump to activity:
  • wrought
  • flaccid
  • sallow
  • plaintive
  • incumbent
  • parish
  • fastidious
  • surreptitious
  • reverie
  • reverend
  • parson
  • engender
  • vicar
  • heretofore
  • forestall
  • veneration
  • august
  • assent
  • alight
  • curate
  • thither
  • ordination
  • indolence
  • thoroughfare
  • compass
  • milieu
  • infinitesimal
  • sentinel
  • bastion
  • sentient
  • apace
  • sidle
  • wax
  • notwithstanding
  • genteel
  • blithe
  • broach
  • promenade
  • lurid
  • appertain
  • inopportune
  • paroxysm
  • boor
  • inexorable
  • encumbrance
  • indignation
  • clerical
  • idyllic
  • pine
  • plaintively

• "The Open Boat" by Stephen Crane

  Jump to activity:
  • dejection
  • surmount
  • tumultuous
  • wrath
  • wallow
  • subtle
  • cynical
  • impetuous
  • apropos
  • founder
  • ingenuous
  • aberration
  • impending
  • opprobrious
  • epithet
  • admonition
  • formidable
  • obstreperous
  • haggard
  • maim
  • supplicant
  • plight
  • profound
  • respite
  • bequeath
  • repose
  • acquiesce
  • beneficent
  • pallor
  • cessation

• "The Moving Finger" by Edith Wharton

  Jump to activity:
  • irretrievable
  • niche
  • sedulous
  • insidious
  • omniscience
  • prodigality
  • sanguine
  • concede
  • complementary
  • husbandry
  • privation
  • indefatigable
  • arrears
  • illimitable
  • obtuse
  • derisive
  • retrospective
  • acquit
  • discretion
  • encroach
  • inextricably
  • desecrate
  • latent
  • jargon
  • abound
  • tentatively
  • efface
  • irrevocably
  • mausoleum
  • belie
  • superfluity
  • convalescence
  • prognostication
  • supersede
  • adjure
  • executor
  • bequeath
  • tenacity
  • tributary
  • ottoman

• "The Door in the Wall" by H.G. Wells

  Jump to activity:
  • earnest
  • intervening
  • inestimable
  • reticent
  • imputation
  • insatiable
  • tedious
  • precocious
  • covet
  • plumb
  • inflection
  • discretion
  • ruddy
  • colonnade
  • somber
  • conspicuous
  • translucent
  • fervent
  • astray
  • frowsy
  • strenuous
  • imposition
  • undertow
  • wanton
  • toilsome
  • vanity
  • livid
  • hamper
  • worldliness
  • tawdry
  • lament
  • pallid
  • semblance
  • unprecedented
  • guise

• "Sredni Vashtar" by Saki (Hector Hugh Munro)

  Jump to activity:
  • effete
  • antagonism
  • wearisome
  • coddle
  • rampant
  • succumb
  • thwart
  • irksome
  • contrive
  • relish
  • arid
  • evoke
  • lavish
  • abode
  • lithe
  • scrupulously
  • dub
  • musty
  • elaborate
  • ferret
  • strew
  • acute
  • dashing
  • malady
  • absorption
  • rebuke
  • precept
  • qualm
  • delicacy
  • boon
  • litany
  • prod
  • loathe
  • domineer
  • ajar
  • wistful
  • exultation
  • paean
  • devastation
  • wane

• "How It Happened" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

  Jump to activity:
  • distinct
  • vague
  • glaring
  • chauffeur
  • notch
  • steep
  • lever
  • intention
  • strain
  • majestic
  • stagger
  • jar
  • pillar
  • conscious
  • genuine
  • peculiar
  • sympathetic
  • giddy
  • wistful
  • exceeding

• "Her First Ball" by Katherine Mansfield

  Jump to activity:
  • bolster
  • indifferent
  • pang
  • keepsake
  • frill
  • forsake
  • gilt
  • parquet
  • yore
  • boarder
  • corrugated
  • calico
  • toque
  • drawl
  • fervent
  • blissful
  • minute
  • solemn
  • shabby
  • scarcely
  • ebony
  • pinafore
  • veranda
  • ravishing
  • haughty

• "The Lady in the Looking-Glass: A Reflection" by Virginia Woolf

  Jump to activity:
  • naturalist
  • nocturnal
  • allusive
  • suffuse
  • perpetual
  • transient
  • gilt
  • presumably
  • tremulous
  • tendril
  • idle
  • spinster
  • obscure
  • audacity
  • upbraid
  • assignation
  • indifference
  • hieroglyphic
  • strew
  • altered
  • irrational
  • crude
  • confer
  • chisel
  • profound
  • exquisite
  • mocking
  • indeterminate
  • distinguished
  • futility
  • evanescence
  • reticent
  • pirouette
  • penetrate
  • pliable
  • impious
  • derange
  • superficial
  • enthralling
  • pitiless

• "The Fly in the Ointment" by V.S. Pritchett

  Jump to activity:
  • interval
  • prosperity
  • idle
  • modesty
  • bland
  • vigorous
  • impish
  • keen
  • despise
  • provincial
  • bewildered
  • liquidate
  • shilling
  • tactful
  • stern
  • creditor
  • zest
  • rancorous
  • daub
  • shrewd
  • optimist
  • deficit
  • practically
  • grave
  • fancy
  • likeness
  • repentance
  • flit
  • oblige
  • plausible
  • appalled
  • irritable
  • vehemently
  • manna
  • frank
  • gregarious
  • extravagant
  • disingenuous
  • brusquely
  • brisk

• "The Custody of the Pumpkin" by P.G. Wodehouse

  Jump to activity:
  • capital
  • surfeit
  • jaundiced
  • demeanor
  • jaunty
  • furtive
  • fatuous
  • formidable
  • finicky
  • insuperable
  • pince-nez
  • truculence
  • indefatigable
  • vouchsafe
  • envisage
  • unswerving
  • bravado
  • frugal
  • escapade
  • rankle
  • loath
  • crass
  • ferment
  • splice
  • wangle
  • flout
  • rapturous
  • shamble
  • enormity
  • contrite
  • deprecate
  • sardonic
  • galling
  • staunch
  • comport
  • austere
  • hauteur
  • dour
  • cleave
  • mien

• "An Englishman's Home" by Evelyn Waugh

  Jump to activity:
  • aphorism
  • emulation
  • balmy
  • patronage
  • horticulture
  • inebriate
  • judicious
  • replete
  • plebeian
  • gentry
  • impecunious
  • unequivocal
  • exiguous
  • stratum
  • ostensible
  • canvass
  • eschew
  • bohemian
  • philistine
  • indisposed
  • perquisite
  • petulantly
  • expunge
  • larder
  • listless
  • delicacy
  • precipitate
  • chafe
  • superfluous
  • accede
  • resplendent
  • speculative
  • conciliation
  • appeasement
  • prodigious

• "The Phoenix" by Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Jump to activity:
  • bunting
  • plumage
  • affable
  • ornithologist
  • milliner
  • pique
  • rancor
  • aviary
  • naturalist
  • executor
  • proprietor
  • oblige
  • amiable
  • antic
  • prime
  • alight
  • spontaneous
  • peevish
  • animosity
  • daunt
  • jeer
  • throng
  • specimen
  • capricious
  • heady
  • languorous
  • subtle
  • phoenix
  • materialize
  • pyre

• "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury

  Jump to activity:
  • tread
  • warren
  • pelt
  • silhouette
  • preoccupation
  • regiment
  • manifest
  • cavort
  • waver
  • matted
  • bellows
  • patter
  • hearth
  • tremulous
  • whim
  • bough
  • solvent
  • linoleum
  • delicacy
  • shrapnel
  • capillary
  • scald
  • brittle
  • oblivious
  • sublime

• "The Prison" by Bernard Malamud

  Jump to activity:
  • tend
  • unendurable
  • drivel
  • vocational
  • urn
  • lank
  • syndicate
  • summons
  • gab
  • distasteful
  • pall
  • sympathy
  • ironically
  • fleck
  • grotesque

• "The Destructors" by Graham Greene

  Jump to activity:
  • brooding
  • ignoble
  • blitz
  • strut
  • incendiary
  • ambiguous
  • common
  • somber
  • perturbed
  • rendezvous
  • unwary
  • impromptu
  • deviation
  • parody
  • monocle
  • exploit
  • daunt
  • implacable
  • fickle
  • altruistic
  • lumber
  • parquet
  • shambles
  • provisions
  • pillage
  • estuary
  • restive
  • joist
  • facade
  • rheumatic
  • parable
  • dither
  • mortar
  • swathe
  • rebuke

• "Meteor" by John Wyndham

  Jump to activity:
  • astray
  • gist
  • altruistic
  • flourish
  • surmount
  • senile
  • receptacle
  • fatalism
  • entail
  • stave off
  • rugged
  • stimulant
  • distend
  • hitherto
  • monstrosity
  • irrevocable
  • fare
  • stratum
  • crevasse
  • facile
  • apprehension
  • dexterity
  • folly
  • colossus
  • trifling
  • warren
  • beset
  • sentient
  • sap
  • interim

• "Billennium" by J.G. Ballard

  Jump to activity:
  • cubicle
  • alcove
  • abut
  • ceaseless
  • clamor
  • queue
  • statutory
  • recess
  • categorical
  • unscrupulous
  • bamboozle
  • tacit
  • plumb
  • thoroughfare
  • allocation
  • makeshift
  • larder
  • reverberate
  • throng
  • municipal
  • hostel
  • claustrophobia
  • incentive
  • morose
  • nominal
  • derelict
  • infirm
  • listless
  • foray
  • nave
  • subsidiary
  • dormer
  • upholstery
  • partition
  • encroach

• "The Lemon Orchard" by Alex La Guma

  Jump to activity:
  • monotonous
  • muzzle
  • jeer
  • silhouette
  • flank
  • corduroy
  • bound
  • myriad
  • range
  • audacity
  • cheeky
  • submit
  • rambling
  • dignity
  • contempt
  • magistrate
  • damages
  • particular
  • inconsistent
  • quicksilver

• "The People Before" by Maurice Shadbolt

  Jump to activity:
  • scrub
  • gully
  • plod
  • coherent
  • incipient
  • anarchy
  • derelict
  • launch
  • wrangle
  • lapse
  • ragged
  • accomplice
  • tether
  • barrack
  • canter
  • fringe
  • conscience
  • extravagance
  • bluff
  • encroach
  • bleak
  • bog
  • loiter
  • traipse
  • falter
  • litter
  • solemn
  • aloof
  • affable
  • jest
  • foliage
  • scour
  • remnant
  • yarn
  • mantelpiece

• "The Enemy" by V.S. Naipaul

  Jump to activity:
  • ensure
  • barrack
  • tramp
  • pelt
  • merely
  • idle
  • glimpse
  • stiff
  • penance
  • endure
  • sediment
  • impression
  • dishonor
  • hammock
  • coax
  • lure
  • filth
  • decent
  • lavatory
  • distinct

• "Five-Twenty" by Patrick White

  Jump to activity:
  • veranda
  • domineer
  • sober
  • fancy
  • congenial
  • corrugated
  • natty
  • prudent
  • legacy
  • amends
  • palpitation
  • nib
  • peak
  • wiry
  • listless
  • scuttle
  • reverberate
  • dainty
  • novelty
  • restrained
  • bulbous
  • chrysalis
  • shambles
  • heifer
  • shamble
  • fussy
  • smolder
  • idle
  • concession
  • mauve
  • luxuriant
  • flounder
  • loll
  • stifling
  • callous

• "A Horse and Two Goats" by R.K. Narayan

  Jump to activity:
  • grandiose
  • inordinate
  • itinerant
  • parapet
  • unobtrusive
  • accost
  • crony
  • affluence
  • pestilence
  • respective
  • progeny
  • barren
  • caste
  • spurn
  • meander
  • aquiline
  • brocade
  • arid
  • gainsay
  • chaste
  • detractor
  • ingratiating
  • implore
  • peroration
  • concession
  • pinion
  • urchin
  • adversary
  • revel
  • pundit
  • incarnate
  • modest
  • flourish
  • wayfarer
  • ruminate

• "Report on the Threatened City" by Doris Lessing

  Jump to activity:
  • indifferent
  • precedent
  • belligerence
  • manifest
  • alleviate
  • endemic
  • subservient
  • germane
  • dissident
  • disinclination
  • subjugate
  • apparatus
  • implication
  • efficacious
  • recapitulate
  • circumlocution
  • juxtaposition
  • plenipotentiary
  • orthodox
  • garb
  • latitude
  • convulsion
  • lassitude
  • unremitting
  • militate
  • unanimous
  • engender
  • callousness
  • menial
  • unpalatable
  • catharsis
  • acclimatize
  • banal
  • vagabond
  • contention
  • aegis
  • alight
  • facetious
  • inimical
  • precipitate

• "The Rain Horse" by Ted Hughes

  Jump to activity:
  • sodden
  • crest
  • fallow
  • warren
  • quarry
  • nondescript
  • bleak
  • shoal
  • nape
  • intently
  • sprawl
  • abscess
  • spiteful
  • feint
  • gradient
  • clairvoyant
  • inane
  • squelch
  • venture
  • supple
  • flank
  • malevolent
  • brandish
  • unaccustomed
  • career
  • canter
  • silhouette
  • desolate
  • awash
  • obscure

• "Ming's Biggest Prey" by Patricia Highsmith

  Jump to activity:
  • addled
  • recommence
  • waver
  • deliberately
  • shrill
  • adobe
  • involuntarily
  • heave
  • groggy
  • lurch
  • cove
  • satchel
  • limber
  • fancy
  • convey
  • threshold
  • parapet
  • elude
  • shadowy
  • tramp

• "The Village Saint" by Bessie Head

  Jump to activity:
  • facade
  • pompous
  • condescending
  • sham
  • decrepit
  • fanciful
  • heretical
  • venal
  • acute
  • austere
  • notorious
  • intrigue
  • deliberation
  • stocky
  • earnest
  • preside
  • assiduously
  • solicitous
  • ail
  • sedate
  • oration
  • indignant
  • reconciliation
  • draught
  • chronic
  • acclaim
  • stern
  • spare
  • query
  • plaintive
  • tremulous
  • tenacious
  • elation
  • ensuing
  • brittle

• "Secrets" by Bernard MacLaverty

  Jump to activity:
  • threshold
  • guttural
  • dignity
  • iris
  • cameo
  • indistinct
  • extract
  • brooch
  • inquisitive
  • nib
  • alcove
  • procession
  • flourish
  • bureau
  • brittle
  • frail
  • censor
  • heartrending
  • nape
  • slate
  • sheer
  • shrapnel
  • carnage
  • frantically
  • stratum

• "The Stoat" by John McGahern

  Jump to activity:
  • fairway
  • warren
  • deflect
  • mull
  • cumbersome
  • rueful
  • impart
  • aura
  • solemnity
  • foreboding
  • affront
  • woe
  • earnest
  • convulse
  • farce
  • bigwig
  • gaiety
  • serviceable
  • promenade
  • rheumatism
  • folly
  • uncanny
  • clinical
  • buffoonery
  • mordant

• "Games at Twilight" by Anita Desai

  Jump to activity:
  • stifle
  • veranda
  • sari
  • strident
  • livid
  • arid
  • melancholy
  • jubilation
  • supercilious
  • sprawl
  • sidle
  • dejected
  • mortuary
  • defunct
  • temerity
  • fray
  • lavish
  • intoxicating
  • hirsute
  • laurel
  • dogged
  • slake
  • seethe
  • elude
  • bawl
  • sepulchral
  • lugubrious
  • intone
  • refrain
  • ignominy

• "The Taste of Watermelon" by Borden Deal

  Jump to activity:
  • yield
  • sustenance
  • glower
  • judicious
  • idle
  • tart
  • wraith
  • chide
  • scoff
  • catapult
  • brisk
  • serene
  • lofty
  • fateful
  • loom
  • cumbersome
  • venture
  • bravado
  • trough
  • bask
  • dubiously
  • gorge
  • sate
  • methodical
  • solemnly
  • sober
  • tacit
  • wanton
  • doggedly
  • humble

• "Journey" by Patricia Grace

  Jump to activity:
  • lavatory
  • upholstery
  • afield
  • pension
  • determination
  • hoe
  • cenotaph
  • queue
  • undertaking
  • adequate
  • commerce
  • recreational
  • aesthetic
  • veneer
  • stoke

• "The Bath" by Janet Frame

  Jump to activity:
  • anemone
  • mauve
  • stoke
  • arduous
  • venture
  • feat
  • fortnight
  • ebb
  • frail
  • flotsam
  • resolutely
  • stern
  • incredulous
  • billowing
  • reel
  • heave
  • sinuous
  • elaborate
  • fleck
  • whittle

• "My Greatest Ambition" by Morris Lurie

  Jump to activity:
  • tycoon
  • idle
  • speculator
  • ambulate
  • digress
  • prospect
  • scoff
  • ludicrous
  • lapel
  • ruthless
  • rivet
  • momentous
  • imposing
  • exotic
  • foyer
  • poise
  • overpower
  • usage
  • plague
  • fictitious

• "To Da-duh, in Memoriam" by Paule Marshall

  Jump to activity:
  • unrelenting
  • stark
  • bodice
  • reconciled
  • formidable
  • reprove
  • grudging
  • truculent
  • apprehensive
  • decrepit
  • admonish
  • procession
  • dissonant
  • stiletto
  • gully
  • rogue
  • intone
  • tremulous
  • fitful
  • perennial
  • galosh
  • sidle
  • emissary
  • incredulous
  • frond
  • poised
  • listless
  • brash
  • irreverent
  • monolithic
  • languish
  • austere
  • protracted
  • penance
  • plume

• "Of White Hairs and Cricket" by Rohinton Mistry

  Jump to activity:
  • cherubic
  • emboss
  • cricket
  • threadbare
  • infirmity
  • inordinate
  • countenance
  • cataract
  • spindle
  • covetous
  • dexterity
  • ethereal
  • enmity
  • insipid
  • clandestine
  • repast
  • acquiesce
  • bout
  • reproach
  • vagary
  • harbinger
  • formidable
  • parapet
  • spinster
  • vitiate
  • ensuing
  • stolid
  • quash
  • dispensary
  • portly
  • erratic
  • shrewd
  • debonair
  • akimbo
  • supine
  • rotundity
  • wiry
  • discreet
  • begrudge
  • dingy

• "Elephant" by Raymond Carver

  Jump to activity:
  • insulation
  • pawn
  • resort
  • full-fledged
  • incurable
  • lien
  • sore
  • conscience
  • economics
  • desperate
  • whereabouts
  • muss
  • buffet
  • overhaul
  • streak

• "Sandpiper" by Ahdaf Soueif

  Jump to activity:
  • contour
  • frill
  • parasol
  • resound
  • precarious
  • coax
  • prod
  • preside
  • seemly
  • billowing
  • fortnight
  • desolate
  • mottled
  • slate
  • colander
  • minutia
  • romp
  • mirage
  • tread
  • irony
  • trousseau
  • intently
  • plait
  • discreet
  • protracted
  • lucid
  • talisman
  • extremity
  • subterranean
  • ebb

• "Journey" by Shirley Geok-Lin Lim

  Jump to activity:
  • subterranean
  • labyrinth
  • tread
  • strew
  • malevolent
  • monotony
  • futile
  • marshal
  • drab
  • inscrutable
  • placate
  • sinuous
  • predatory
  • seedy
  • irrevocable
  • contour
  • recede
  • parcel
  • rifle
  • potent
  • croon
  • expletive
  • vile
  • fretful
  • contracted
  • writhing
  • instinctive
  • cessation
  • sluice
  • inversion

• "The Third and Final Continent" by Jhumpa Lahiri

  Jump to activity:
  • establish
  • obtain
  • accommodation
  • convert
  • adjust
  • intolerable
  • achievement
  • anticipate
  • oblivious
  • mortified
  • vigorous
  • fragrance
  • destination
  • decipher
  • distance
  • prospect
  • mourn
  • ambition
  • obstacle
  • bewildered

• "Tyres" by Adam Thorpe

  Jump to activity:
  • tread
  • furrow
  • emaciated
  • hapless
  • shrew
  • bonnet
  • fitful
  • nigh
  • intermittent
  • surmise
  • dappled
  • alight
  • mercenary
  • commiseration
  • innocuous
  • preclude
  • sinewy
  • feigned
  • gaiety
  • intimate
  • compunction
  • dolt
  • as the crow flies
  • assignation
  • spanner
  • patois
  • minion
  • grovel
  • tripe
  • effigy

• "At Hiruharama" by Penelope Fitzgerald

  Jump to activity:
  • apprentice
  • reckon
  • remote
  • shilling
  • hitch
  • infirm
  • homestead
  • loft
  • predicament
  • hamper
  • confer
  • practical
  • apparently
  • buggy
  • gully
  • likeness
  • commotion
  • perpetually
  • oversight
  • wring

• "Real Time" by Amit Chaudhuri

  Jump to activity:
  • sari
  • bereavement
  • swathe
  • theology
  • rite
  • loiter
  • contemptuously
  • forgo
  • reminiscent
  • impress
  • incongruous
  • imposing
  • emanate
  • promiscuous
  • curio
  • convex
  • hubbub
  • conciliatory
  • gravitate
  • convivial
  • anecdote
  • grope
  • jovial
  • equable
  • dregs
  • histrionic
  • obtuse
  • lucid
  • hindsight
  • ravenous

• "On Her Knees" by Tim Winton

  Jump to activity:
  • recess
  • stickler
  • discreet
  • lofty
  • benchmark
  • invariably
  • extort
  • ludicrous
  • chassis
  • vindication
  • composure
  • belie
  • sullen
  • scrupulous
  • demeaning
  • tart
  • posh
  • mauve
  • brusque
  • trough
  • warble
  • livid
  • grim
  • tranquil
  • intimate
  • blase
  • bristle
  • forbearing
  • avert
  • flounce

• "The Contest" by Annie Proulx

  Jump to activity:
  • odious
  • forgo
  • octogenarian
  • nascent
  • anemic
  • chagrin
  • profusion
  • skedaddle
  • jocularity
  • radicalism
  • speculation
  • discern
  • abstruse
  • circumlocution
  • profound
  • dialectic
  • chaff
  • perusal
  • abbot
  • frugal
  • punitive
  • plait
  • unguent
  • impart
  • vigor
  • bristly
  • grouse
  • respective
  • livery
  • perjury
  • winch
  • nonplussed
  • ergonomics
  • morosely
  • enigmatic