ATGIB Test Vocab & Quotes

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articulate

using language easily and fluently

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contempt

scorn; ill feelings

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conjecture

a statement, opinion, or conclusion based on guesswork

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gallantly

bravely, nobly

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lament

to feel or express sorrow or regret

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prodigiously

grandly

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saunter

to walk with a confident gait

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sordid

immoral; wretchedly poor

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unorthodox

unconventional

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vivacious

lively, animated

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adornment

ornamentation; embellishment

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contrite

Feeling regret and sorrow for one's sins or offenses; penitent

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dubious

deceptive

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fastidious

careful, meticulous attention to detail

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infinitesimal

unmeasurably small

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harassed

troubled or irritated persistently

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lulled

put to sleep or rest

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sodden

soaked with liquid or moisture; saturated

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submissiveness

the trait of being willing to yield to the will of another person

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stout

heavily built, fat

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"The doctor said that if she wants to go and some people don't let her go, she's liable to drop right down dead from overloaded kidneys."

Sissy

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"At last I'm through with it. I hate it, I hate it, I hate it!...I haven't touched a drop since that night...But no one would believe me anymore. No one..."

Johnny

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"Mrs. Nolan...could I come up here once in a while to talk?...just to talk."

McGarrity

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"Filth, filth, filth, from morning to night. I know they're poor but they could wash. Water is free and soap is cheap. Just look at that arm..."

Doctor

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"Little girl, you'll be a story writer when you grow up."

Miss Tynmore

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"Do you be sayin' your prayers to the Little Flower each night askin' that you grow up half as pretty as your mother."

McShane

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"But poverty, starvation, and drunkenness are ugly subjects to choose. We all admit those things exist. But one doesn't write about them."

Miss Gardner

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"In all those years of the talking, Yohnny gave away pieces of himself to this man. When Katie called on her man for help, the pieces of him came together in this man, and it was Yohnny within the saloon man's soul that heard and came to her help."

Mary

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"For once I wanted us to feel like millionaires. And if twenty cents can make us feel rich, it's a cheap price to pay."

Katie

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”If God was in charge of all the world...and the sun and the moon and the stars and all the birds and trees and flowers and all the animals and people, you’d think He’d be too busy and too important--wouldn’t you---to spend so much time punishing one man--one man like Papa.”

Francie