The Pigman Vocab Chapters 1-9
Terms
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- avocation
- hobby
- compassion
- sympathy for other people
- distort
- to twist the truth; to give a false impression
- mortified
- extremely embarrassed or ashamed
- patron
- prson who provides financial support to artists or writers
- philanthropy
- act of charity intended to help a person or a group of people
- prevarications
- lies
- subliminally
- unconciously
- subsidize
- to provide financial aid
- antagonistic
- hostile; given to arguing or fighting
- anxiety
- fearful concern or nervousness
- eerie
- strange and frightening
- ingrate
- ungrateful person
- nocturnal
- of the night; active at night
- omens
- clues as to what will happen in the future
- ritual
- customary series of acts