Catcher in the Rye Vocab Ch 1-5

hemmorage

(n) Bleeding, especially severe bleeding

ostracized

(v) Shunned; excluded; left out

qualms

(n) Feelings of doubt

compulsory

(adj) Required, mandatory

groping

(v) Reaching blindly

sadistic

(adj.) delighting in cruelty, excessively cruel

ironical

(adj) characterized by often poignant difference or incongruity between what is expected and what actually is

exhibitionist

(n) One who likes to show off and get attention

rile

(v) to make angry, to arouse resentment

innumerable

(adj) Countless

monotonous

(adj) tediously repetitious or lacking in variety