Vocabulary in A Man in Full

VOCABULARY in A Man in Full

Pagination in 1999 Bantam paperback edition. Note that the context determines the specific meaning of each word or phrase.

Prologue
declivities (8)

Chapter 1
        Bout en Train (19)
        Freaknik (19)
        maître d’ (23)
        kowtow (25)
        jeunesse dorée (26)
        Dionysian (28)
        coiffed (30, 97)
        cilium (30)

Chapter 2
        boffster (38)
        malfeasance (52)
        defalcation (52)
        dun (53)

Chapter 3
mausoleum (66)
parvenu (86)

Chapter 4
        crêpe de chine (97)
        debouch (97)
        selvaged (97)
        baluster (100)

Chapter 5
littoral (116)

Chapter 6
        stertorously (150)
        chemise (151)
        lubricious (154)
        argot (155)
        charmeuse (156)

Chapter 7
        mewling and puling (170)
        entrepreneur (171)
        Porcellian (171)
        bludgeoned (174)

Chapter 8
        quoins (201)
        groins (201)
        pilasters (201)
        cornice (202)
        pediment (202)
        porte cochere (202)
        segmental pediment (205)
        cruciform mullions (205)
        balustrade (211)

Chapter 9
        gestalt (230)
        perambulators (230)
        non pareil (230)
        Omohundro easy chair (247)

Chapter 10
        brook (as in: ‘We brook no whining.’) (250)
        étagère (250)
        pell-mell (255)
        sotto voce (255)
        hoople (257, 727)
        portentous (262)
        finickly (263)

Chapter 11
        beano (271)
        temerity (284)
        insouciant (287)

Chapter 12
        loquacious (296)
        orotund (297)
        marcelled (297)
        spirochetes (302)
        ebullient (306)
        stentorian (307)
        nolo contendere (307)
        compunction (309)
        knout (323)
        pastern (324)
        inchoately (326)
        spavined (326)
        shillelagh (327)
        paroxysmal (327)

Chapter 13
        gaffe (331)
        bonhomie (332)
        prognathous ( (332)
        ignominious (336), ignominy (443)
        visage (341)

Chapter 14
        odious (345)
        femme natale (346)
        florid ( (346)
        apoplectic (346)
        mendacity (348)
        erstwhile (348)
        thyrotic (351)
        gauche (352)
        toque blanche (359)
        flaccid (360)

Chapter 15
        finca (363)
        karma (366)
        kiriya (366)
        dharma (366)
        stupefied (369)
        impetigo (370)
        consternation (371)
        clerestory (375)
        obstinate (377)
        keloidal (379)
        gratuitous (382)
        gork (384)
        incorrigible (392)
        amok (392)

Chapter 16
        colonnades (399)
        garlands (399)
        parqueted (399)
        desolate (402)
        escapade (404)
        synchrony (406)
        tonsure (406)
        trepidation (407)

Chapter 17
        disconsolately (427)
        sagacity (427)
        cache-sexes (429)
        colloquies (433)
        bedraggled (437)
        imprecations (439)
        ululations (443)
        cuckolding (443)
        derogation (443)
        beckon (444)

Chapter 18
        eminence (445)
        Corbusier mode (445)
        Le tout Atlanta (445)
        muntins (446, 532)
        aegis (446)
        canted-over (447)
        tinctured (448)
        cipher (449)
        diffident (450)
        flippant (451)
        pensive (452)
        tumescent (453)
        portly (453)
        marquetry (454)
        cosmopolites (454)
        cachepot (455)
        le monde (456)
        scintillating (456)
        din (457)
        inane (459)
        gambits (459)
        nabobs (460)
        squalor (460)
        boisterous (461)
        scoliosis (461)
        carcerel (462)
        torpor (462)
        countenance (463)
        patter (464)
        mincing (464)

Chapter 19
        tinny (468)
        retinue (468)
        fusillades (469)
        excursion (469)
        ambient (469)
        prodigious (471)
        pallid (471)
        parley (471)
        supinely (472)
        contagion (472)
        goulash (472)
        sardonically (474)
        languid (475)
        unabashedly (476)
        supplication (478)
        noggin (479)
        pariah (480)
        paragons (481)
        unctuously (483)
        croon (484)
        insouciance (488)

Chapter 20
        forlornly (505)
        despondently (505)
        obliterated (506)
        screels (509)
        gaunt (515)
        guerilla (516)
        sapper (516)

Chapter 21
        vilifications (529)
        ostensible (529)
        laudable (530)
        architraves (533)
        sumptuous (534)
        puttees (538)
        gadrooned (538)
        chicory (539)
        entre nous (541, 575)
        kave (543)
        epithets (544)
        bastion (544)
        Bemberg (545)

Chapter 22
        voluble (547)
        octogenarian (547)
        wizened (547)
        barouches (570)
        indolence (570)
        penology (572)
        aubergine (573)
        guayabera (574)
        patois (575)
        Mammon (577)

Chapter 23
        chiasma (583)
        hypnagogic (583)
        fenestration (585)
        perfidious (594)
        arrant (595)
        ponzi (598)
        gloaming (598)
        doges (599)
        superannuated (604)
        puissance (604)
        Priapus (606)
        fin de siècle (608)

Chapter 24
petulant (623)
scrip (625)

Chapter 25
cocksureness (632)

Chapter 26
        lugubriously (644)
        euchre (644)
        vivacious (649)
        chiaroscuro (653)
        sardonic (656)
        crestfallen (656)

Chapter 27
epidural (657)
matelassé counterpane (669)

Chapter 31
redoubt (742)
effete (742)

Chapter 32
Schadenfreude (756)
canard (761)

Last updated 18 Oct. 2006

CNE/PHL 410: Stoicism syllabus