Paper Towns Vocabulary (Part 2)
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Decipher
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Make out the meaning of
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Fathom
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Come to understand
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Impunity
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Exemption from punishment or loss
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Meager
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Deficient in amount or quality or extent
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Awestruck
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Having a feeling of mixed reverence and wonder and dread
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Peripheral
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On or near the edge or constituting an outer boundary
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Salacious
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Suggestive of or tending to moral looseness
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Compel
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Force somebody to do something
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Pummel
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Strike, usually with the fist
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Jamb
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A vertical side member of a door or window frame
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Sheepish
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Marked by docility or stupidity or meekness or timidity
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Desolate
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Providing no shelter or sustenance
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Leverage
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The mechanical advantage gained by a machine on a fulcrum
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Acceleration
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The act of increasing the speed
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Brunt
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Main force of a blow ect
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Perpetually
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Everlastingly; for all time
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Morbid
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Suggesting the horror of death and decay
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Cavalier
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Given to haughty disregard of others
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Petty
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Small and of little importance
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Plaintive
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Expressing sorrow
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Nonsensical
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Having no intelligible meaning
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Congregate
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Come together, usually for a purpose
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Multiplicity
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The property of having more than one part of entity
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Ubiquity
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The state of being everywhere at once
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Cacophonous
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Having an unpleasant sound
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Superficial
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Only concerned with what is apparent or obvious
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Relinquish
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Release, as from one's grip
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Humanitarian
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Of or relating to the promotion of popular welfare
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Sentimentality
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Extravagant or affected feeling or emotion
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Deplorable
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Bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure
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Obfuscation
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Confusion resulting from failure to understand
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Rural
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Of or relating to the countryside as opposed to the city
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Nostalgic
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Unhappy about being away and longing for familiar things
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Mock
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Treat with contempt
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Albatross
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Something that hinders or handicaps
