Word
1. Reefer (page 15)
2. Heinous (page 15) 3. Housebroken (page 16) 4. Gratis (page 17) 5. Escapade (page 17) 6. Truss (page 18) 7. Phiz (page 18) 8. Infidelity 18 9. Summation (page 19) 10. Aspirations (page19) 11. Dubbed (page 19) 12. Militated (page19) 13. Moulage (page 19) 14. Incompetent (page 18) 15. Prominent (page 18) 16. Cross-examination (Page 18) 17. Woollen (page 21) 18. Surcharge (page 21) 19. Snatches (page 22) 20. Broadsided (page 22) 21. Musing (page 22) 22. Subjective (page 22) 23. Morose (page 43) 24. Obtuse (page 66) 25. Penology (page 66) |
Part of Speech
Noun
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Definition
A marijuana cigarette.
hateful; odious; abominable; totally reprehensible: a heinous offense. trained to avoid excreting inside the house or in improper places. without charge or payment; free a reckless adventure or wild prank. to tie, bind, or fasten. Face or a Facial expression marital disloyalty; adultery. a review or recapitulation of previously stated facts or statements, often with a final conclusion or conclusions drawn from them. strong desire, longing, or aim; ambition: intellectual aspirations. to invest with any name, character, dignity, or title; style; name; call: He was dubbed a hero. to have a substantial effect; weigh heavily: His prison record militated against him. the making of a mold, especially with plaster of Paris, of objects, footprints, tire tracks, etc., as for the purpose of identification. notcompetent; lacking qualification or ability; incapable: an incompetent candidate. leading,important, or well-known: a prominent citizen. to examine by questions intended to check a previous examination; examine closely or minutely. any cloth of carded wool yarn of which the fibers vary in length: bulkier, looser, and less regular than worsted. an additional charge, tax, or cost. to make a sudden effort to seize something, as with the hand; grab (usually followed by at ). anystrong or comprehensive attack, as by criticism. absorbed in thought; meditative. existing in the mind; belonging to the thinking subject rather than to the object of thought ( opposed to objective). gloomily or sullenly ill-humored, as a person or mood. not quick or alert in perception, feeling, or intellect; not sensitive or observant; dull. The study of the punishment of crime, in both its deterrent and its reformatory aspects. |
Example
1. “Tailor-made cigarettes, a bag of reefer if you’re partial to
that, a bottle of brandy to celebrate your son or daughter’s high school graduation, or almost anything else ... within reason, that is.” 2.“The judge called what I had done “a hideous, heinous crime,” and it was, but it is also in the past now.” 3.“I found out that what he really had in mind was keeping me in his house and under his thumb, like a disagreeable pet that has not quite been housebroken and which may bite.” 4.“I don’t get all those things gratis, and for some items the price comes high.” 5.“I even arranged for a midnight showing of Deep Throat and The Devil in Miss Jones for a party of twenty men who had pooled their resources to rent the films ... although I ended up doing a week in solitary for that little escapade.” 6.“you have to multiply that conservatism by ten when you get up into New England, where folks don’t like to trust a man with their money unless he’s bald, limping, and constantly plucking at his pants to get his truss around straight.” 7.“trial only lasted as long as it did because the DA was planning to run for the U.S. House of Representatives and he wanted John Q. Public to get a good long look at his phiz.” 8.“that the subject of their argument was her infidelity.” 9.“DA with the political aspirations made a great deal of it in his opening statement and his closing summation.” 10.“DA with the political aspirations made a great deal of it in his opening statement and his closing summation.” 11.“Boston Register dubbed him The Even-Steven Killer.” 12. “It was that last fact that militated more against Andy than any of the others.” 13. “third item, a plaster moulage of a set of tire tracks (exactly matching the tread-and-wear pattern of the tires on the defendant’s 1947 Plymouth).” 14.“They were the victims of judges with hearts of stone and balls to match, or incompetent lawyers, or police frame-ups, or bad luck.” 15.“There was a beautiful girl with society connections (dead), a local sports figure (also dead), and a prominent young businessman in the dock.” 16.“The DA asked him on cross-examination.” 17. "They just couldn’t see this coldly self-possessed young man in the neat double-breasted three-piece woollen suit ever getting falling-down drunk over his wife’s sleazy little affair with some small-town golf pro.” 18.“My commission on liquor was and is ten per cent, and when you add on that surcharge to the price of a fine sippin whiskey like the Black Jack, you get an idea of how many hours of Andy Dufresne’s sweat in the prison laundry was going to buy his four drinks a year.” 19. “told the jury that on the night of the tenth he had been so drunk he could only remember what had happened in little isolated snatches.” 20. “The facts of the case have been broadsided in all the papers.” 21.“Andy went on in that musing way of his.” 22.“But still ... memory is such a goddam subjective thing.” 23.“He lapsed into a morose silence, thinking of what terrible bad luck he’d had to inherit that thirty-five thousand dollars.” 24. “How can you be so obtuse?” 25.“Phrases like that, selective perception, are required learning for people in the penology and corrections business, and they use them all they can.” |