Catch-22 Vocab Page One
Terms
undefined, object
copy deck
- furgle
- slang for sex
- Aplomb
- skill or dexterity
- portentously
- ominously, or suggesting danger
- gamboling
- carefree; frolicking
- wheedled
- begged with a petulant voice; whined; coaxed
- subcutaneously
- underneath the skin
- putrescent
- rotten and decaying
- panacea
- fast or easy solution; usually unrealistic in the long term
- motile
- able to move independently
- ethereal
- beyond perception by the senses
- paroxysms
- spasms
- desiccated
- dried; withered
- homiletic
- like a sermon or a practical topic
- unctuous
- oily or slimy; false earnestness
- echelon
- level or rank; troop formation
- expurgating
- eliminating
- prolix
- excessive in length, or boring
- strident
- loud and shrill
- infundibuliform
- shaped like a funnel
- pernicious
- harmful
- apoplectic
- seizure-like
- beseeched
- pathetically begged
- deferentially
- respectfully