Of Mice and Men Vocabulary & Colloquialisms
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| 31227676 | bindle | a bed roll and/or pack or personal belongings | |
| 31227677 | jack | money | |
| 31227678 | graybacks | lice | |
| 31227679 | buck | a man | |
| 31227680 | buckler | those who move or load heavy objects (like sacks of grain) | |
| 31227681 | skinner | a driver of a draft team of animals | |
| 31227682 | tart | prostitute | |
| 31227683 | mules | shoes or slippers | |
| 31227684 | found | free food and lodgings in addition to wages | |
| 31227685 | hoosegow | jail | |
| 31227686 | hame | part of the collar for a draft animal | |
| 31227687 | booby hatch | insane asylum | |
| 31227688 | floozy | cheap, immoral woman | |
| 31227689 | snooker | a variation of pool played with 15 red balls and 6 balls of assorted colors | |
| 31236981 | mollify | to pacify or soften in feeling or temper | |
| 31236982 | scud | to run or move quickly or hurriedly | |
| 31236983 | console | to allieviate or lessen the grief | |
| 31236984 | scornful | derisive; contemptuous | |
| 31236985 | scuttle | to run with quick, hasty steps; scurry | |
| 31236986 | ominous | portending evil or harm; foreboding | |
| 31236987 | imperiously | dictatorially; overbearingly | |
| 31236988 | writhe | to twist about or squirm as in pain | |
| 31236989 | earnestly | effort made with sincere zeal | |
| 31236990 | brindled | gray or tawny with darker streaks or spots | |
| 31236991 | crestfallen | dejected; dispirited; discouraged | |
| 31236992 | brusque | abrupt in manner; blunt; rough | |
| 31236993 | belligerent | aggressively hostile; warlike | |
| 31236994 | contemptuous | disdainful; supercilious; haughty | |
| 31236995 | profound | having deep insight or understanding | |
| 31236996 | scourge | to punish, chastise, or criticize severely | |
| 31236997 | mottle | to mark or diversify with spots or blotches or color | |
| 31236998 | contorted | twisted in a violent manner; distorted | |
| 31236999 | disarming | removing or capable of removing hostility or suspicion | |
| 31237000 | wryly | bitterly or disdainfully ironic or amusing | |
| 31237001 | pugnacious | quarrelsome; belligerent; combative | |
| 31237002 | morosely | gloomily or sullenly ill-humored | |
| 31237003 | dutiful | duteous | |
| 31237004 | indignation | strong feeling of unjust or insulting actions | |
| 31237005 | derogatory | belittling, uncomplimentary | |
| 31237944 | tick | mattress | |
| 81924784 | dejected | depressed in spirits; disheartened | |
| 81924785 | apologetically | to act with sorrow or regret | |
| 81924786 | craftily | to act in a cunning, sly, or deceitful manner | |
| 81924787 | ominous | foreboding, threatening, with evil or harm | |
| 81924788 | defensive | guarded;protective | |
| 81924789 | complacently | to act placidly with self assurance; unaware of danger or threat | |
| 81924790 | intensity | showing great strength and concentration | |
| 81924791 | amusedly | to act pleseantly entertained or diverted | |
| 81924792 | contemptuously | to act in a scornful or disdainful manner | |
| 81924793 | dutifully | to perform the acts required of a person |