Red+Badge+vocabulary

[|regiment]The **regiment** was fed and caressed at station after station until the youth had believed that he must be a hero. [|sunray]When the **sunrays** at last struck full and mellowingly upon the earth, the youth saw that the landscape was streaked with two long, thin, black columns which disappeared on the brow of a hill in front and rearward vanished in a wood. [|color sergeant]The profiles were motionless, carven; and afterward he remembered that the **color sergeant** was standing with his legs apart, as if he expected to be pushed to the ground. [|insignificantly]He could conceive of men going very **insignificantly** about the world bearing a load of courage unseen, and although he had known many of his comrades through boyhood, he began to fear that his judgment of them had been blind. [|knee joint]Farther up the line a man, standing behind a tree, had had his **knee joint** splintered by a ball. [|amputate]Th' dern doctor wanted t' **amputate** 'm, an' Bill, he raised a heluva row, I hear. [|color bearer]They were new and beautiful, and the **color bearer** habitually oiled the pole. [|provost guard]Pretty soon, though, we 'll meet a-plenty of guards an' **provost-guards**, an' one thing an' another. [|musketry]They were pursued by the sound of **musketry** fire. [|jest]"Well, yeh kin b'lieve me er not, **jest** as yeh like. [|din]He **dinned** reproaches at times.  [|catcall]There were crows and **catcalls** showered upon him when he retreated without the horse.  [|clangor]One night, as he lay in bed, the winds had carried to him the **clangoring** of the church bell as some enthusiast jerked the rope frantically to tell the twisted news of a great battle.  [|brigade]Whole **brigades** grinned in unison, and regiments laughed.  [|babble]In the darkness he saw visions of a thousand-tongued fear that would **babble** at his back and cause him to flee, while others were going coolly about their country's business. [|pardner]"Ye'd better take 'im outa th' road, **pardner**. [|perambulate]Once, when the command had first come to the field, some **perambulating** veterans, noting the length of their column, had accosted them thus: "Hey, fellers, what brigade is that?"  [|drum major]One was marching with an air imitative of some sublime **drum major**.  [|oblige]For a time he was **obliged** to labor to make himself believe.  [|fascinate]The skirmishers in advance **fascinated** him.  [|bushwhacker]When that feller trod on his hand, he up an' sed that he was willin' t' give his hand t' his country, but he be dumbed if he was goin' t' have every dumb **bushwhacker** in th' kentry walkin' 'round on it. [|regimental]At nightfall the column broke into **regimental** pieces, and the fragments went into the fields to camp. [|crackle]He wished to get out of hearing of the **crackling** shots which were to him like voices. [|twiddle]For recreation he could **twiddle** his thumbs and speculate on the thoughts which must agitate the minds of the generals. [|agitate]For recreation he could twiddle his thumbs and speculate on the thoughts which must **agitate** the minds of the generals. [|clamor]They **clamored** at each other, numbers making futile bids for the popular attention. [|quick march]He bellowed at the tottering crowd who blocked the **quick march** of his bearers. [|battery]A **battery** spoke. [|scamper]The hoofs of his horse often threatened the heads of the running men, but they **scampered** with singular fortune. [|battle line]A dark **battle line** lay upon a sunstruck clearing that gleamed orange color. [|pulsate]As he listened to the din from the hillside, to a deep **pulsating** thunder that came from afar to the left, and to the lesser clamors which came from many directions, it occurred to him that they were fighting, too, over there, and over there, and over there. [|exasperate]"Not much it won't," replied the tall soldier, **exasperated**. [|lurid]His busy mind had drawn for him large pictures extravagant in color, **lurid** with breathless deeds. [|conceive]He could **conceive** of men going very insignificantly about the world bearing a load of courage unseen, and although he had known many of his comrades through boyhood, he began to fear that his judgment of them had been blind. [|American Civil War]The Red Badge of Courage Stephen Crane (1871-1900) An Episode of the **American Civil War** Chapter 1 The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting. [|flee]In the darkness he saw visions of a thousand-tongued fear that would babble at his back and cause him to **flee**, while others were going coolly about their country's business. [|stare]As he perceived her, she had immediately begun to **stare** up through the high tree branches at the sky. [|stumble]The men **stumbled** along still muttering speculations. [|valor]Some talked of gray, bewhiskered hordes who were advancing with relentless curses and chewing tobacco with unspeakable **valor**; tremendous bodies of fierce soldiery who were sweeping along like the Huns. [|rustle]A mass of wet grass, marched upon, **rustled** like silk. [|gesticulate]Sometimes he could see them **gesticulating** against the blue and somber sky. [|bounce]His musket **bounced** a trifle from his shoulder at each stride and made his cap feel uncertain upon his head. [|red-eye]From across the river the **red eyes** were still peering. [|perceive]As he **perceived** her, she had immediately begun to stare up through the high tree branches at the sky. [|blood stream]The babbling man was grazed by a shot that made the **blood stream** widely down his face. [|suffuse]His homely face was **suffused** with a light of love for the army which was to him all things beautiful and powerful. [|convulse]The blatant soldier often **convulsed** whole files by his biting sarcasms aimed at the tall one. [|contortion]They lay twisted in fantastic **contortions**. [|unguided]His **unguided** feet, too, caught aggravatingly in brambles; and with it all he received a subtle suggestion to touch the corpse. [|complicate]After **complicated** journeyings with many pauses, there had come months of monotonous life in a camp. THESE ARE THE VOCABULARY WORDS FOR FRIDAY, APRIL 8TH.

[|perfunctory] It suddenly occurred to the youth that the fight in which he had been was, after all, but **perfunctory** popping.

//as a formality only//

[|titter] A low, **tittering** laugh went among his fellows.

//laugh nervously//

[|impending]He recalled his visions of broken-bladed glory, but in the shadow of the **impending** tumult he suspected them to be impossible pictures.

//about to occur//

[|facetious] With the passionate song of the bullets and the banshee shrieks of shells were mingled loud catcalls and bits of **facetious** advice concerning places of safety.

//cleverly amusing in tone//

[|lull] There was a **lull** in the noises of insects as if they had bowed their beaks and were making a devotional pause.

//a pause during which things are calm or activities are diminished//

[|scorch]The youth had reached an anguish where the sobs **scorched** him.

//a surface burn//

[|awry]His hat was gone and his clothes were **awry**.

//turned or twisted toward one side//

[|infernal]The brigade was hurrying briskly to be gulped into the **infernal** mouths of the war god.

//extremely evil or cruel//

[|flout]Then, in other moments, he **flouted** these theories, and assured him that his fellows were all privately wondering and quaking.

//treat with contemptuous disregard//

[|trepidation]High in a treetop he stopped, and, poking his head cautiously from behind a branch, looked down with an air of **trepidation**.

//a feeling of alarm or dread//

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