All Quiet on the Western Front Vocabulary

Banal

boring and unoriginal

Bequeath

to leave something to someone in a will

Commandeer

to take something for military or official use

Covet

to strongly want something that belongs to someone else

Emaciated

extremely thin from lack of food

Expound

to explain something in detail

Evasive

avoiding giving a clear answer

Fallible

capable of making mistakes

Flourish

to grow or do well

Indigent

very poor

Indignation

anger about something unfair

Martinet

a strict disciplinarian

Melancholy

deep sadness

Obliterate

to destroy completely

Obtuse

slow to understand

Ostracize

to exclude someone from a group

Placate

to calm someone down by giving in to them

Queue

a line of people or things waiting their turn

Reverberation

a repeated echo or lasting effect

Superfluous

more than needed; unnecessary

Revile

to criticize angrily and harshly

Trifling

unimportant or small