Monday, May 2, 2011

Chapter 2 Vocabulary Builder - Erik Maanum

Bourgeois (pg 20): Marked by a concern for material interests and respectability and a tendency toward mediocrity

Interloper (pg 20): One that intrudes in a place

Ineptitude (pg 20): The quality or state of being incompetent

Viscerally (pg 21): To respond crudely

Proletarian (pg 24): A member of the lowest social or economic class in a community

Raconteur (pg 27): A person who excels in telling anecdotes

Stevedores (pg 28): One who works at or is responsible for loading and unloading ships in port

Ubiquity (pg 37): Ongoing presence

Traipse (pg 39): To walk

Atavistic (pg 44): A reoccurring action

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