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
        latissimi dorsi (3)
        coveys (7, covey 742)

        declivities (8)

Chapter 1: Chocolate Mecca
        Bout en Train (19, 656)
        Freaknik (19)
        maître d’ (23)
        kowtow (25)
        jeunesse dorée (26)
        Dionysian (28)
        coiffed (30, 97)
        cilium (30, 606)

Chapter 2: The Saddlebags
        boffster (38)
        malfeasance (52)
        defalcation (52, defalcatory 333, 766)
        dun (53)

Chapter 3: Turpmtine
        mausoleum (66, 563)
        esprit de l’escalier (75)
        terpsichorean (78)
        anomaly (80)
        whit leather (84)
        parvenu (86)

Chapter 4: Beige Half Brothers
        crêpe de chine (97, 587)
        debouch (97)
        selvaged (97, selvaging 533)
       
baluster (100, -s 446)

Chapter 5: The Suicidal Freezer Unit
        littoral (116)

Chapter 6: In the Lair of the Lust
        stertorously (150)
        chemise (151)
        lubricious (154, lubricity 711)
        argot (155)
        charmeuse (156)

Chapter 7: Hello Out There, 7-Eleven Land
        mewling and puling (170)
        entrepreneur (171)
        Porcellian (171)
        bludgeoned (174)

Chapter 8: The Lay of the Land
        quoins (201)
        groins (201)
        pilasters (201)
        cornice (202, 688)
        pediment (202)
        porte cochere (202, 750)
        segmental pediment (205)
        cruciform mullions (205)
        balustrade (211)

Chapter 9: The Superfluous Woman
        tout le monde (222, le monde 456)
        proliferating (223)
        voluptuous (223, 721)
        cotillion (223)
        adipose (223)
        ignominy (225, 443, ignominious 336)
        troubadours (226)
        narcissistic (226)
        eviscerated (227)
        perfidy (227, 629, 714, perfidious 594, 678, perfidiousness 623)
        gestalt (230)
        perambulators (230)
        non pareil (230)
        sardonic (231, 656, -ally 474)
        Pygmalion (235)
        audacity (235)
        disconsolately (236, 427)
        carapace (237)
        malefactors (243)
        cronies (245)
        Omohundro easy chair (247)

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

Chapter 11: This Is—Not Right!
        admonition (265)
        amok (268, 392)
        nonplussed (271, 301)
        beano (271, 483)
        circumlocutions (276)
        temerity (284, 462)
        insouciant (287, -ly 335, 688, insouciance 488)

Chapter 12: The Breeding Barn
        loquacious (296, -ness 309)
        orotund (297)
        marcelled (297)
        andirons (298)
        jags (302)
        spirochetes (302)
        paroxysmal (302, 327)
        morosely (303, morose 694)
        nemesis (304, 632)
        sibilant (304)
        ebullient (306)
        consternation (306, 344)
        stentorian (307)
        nolo contendere (307)
        abstruse (307)
        cherub (308)
        compunction (309)
        approbation (310)
        lethargic (311)
        tableau (313)
        clerestory (316, 375)
        grimaced (317)
        behemoth (321)
        knout (323)
        pastern (324)
        spavined (326)
        Lilliputians (327)
        paroxysmal (327)
        shillelagh (327)
        inchoately (328)

Chapter 13: The Arrest
        gaffe (331, 650)
        bonhomie (332)
        prognathous (332)
        chattel (333)
        garrulous (336, 669)
        rollicking (340)
        visage (341)

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

Chapter 15: The Rubber Room
        finca (363)
        karma (366)
        kiriya (366)
        dharma (366)
        stupefied (369, 769, stupefying 692)
        impetigo (370)
        consternation (371)
        obstinate (377)
        keloidal (379)
        gratuitous (382)
        gork (384, 671)
        incorrigible (392)

Chapter 16: Gotcha Back
        colonnades (399)
        garlands (399)
        parqueted (399)
        desolate (402, desolation 708)
        escapade (404)
        synchrony (406)
        tonsure (406)
        trepidation (407, 560, 784)

Chapter 17: Epictetus Comes to Da House
        sagacity (427)
        ruefully (428, 709)
        cache-sexes (429)
        Sinequan (432)
        colloquies (433)
        seraglio (434)
        bedraggled (437)
        imprecations (439, 633)
        cuckolding (443)
        derogation (443)
        ululations (443, ululation 491, 492)
        beckon (444)

Chapter 18: The Aha!  Phenomenon
        eminence (445, eminent 679)
        Corbusier mode (445)
        Le tout Atlanta (445, 597, 599)
        muntins (446, 532)
        aegis (446, 554)
        canted-over (447)
        tinctured (448)
        martinet (448)
        cipher (449)
        diffident (450, 715)
        flippant (451)
        pensive (452)
        tumescent (453)
        portly (453)
        marquetry (454)
        cosmopolites (454)
        gregarious (455)
        cachepot (455, -s 463)
        scintillating (456)
        din (457)
        inane (459)
        gambits (459)
        nabobs (460)
        squalor (460)
        boisterous (461)
        scoliosis (461, scoliotic 649)
        carcerel (462)
        torpor (462)
        countenances (463)
        patter (464)
        mincing (464, 473)

Chapter 19: The Trial
        tinny (468)
        retinue (468)
        fusillades (469)
        excursion (469)
        ambient (469, 482)
        prodigious (471, 472)
        pallid (471)
        parley (471)
        supinely (472)
        contagion (472)
        goulash (472)
        perambulating (474)
        languid (475)
        unabashedly (476)
        autonomous (477)
        supplication (478)
        noggin (479)
        pariah (480)
        paragons (481)
        unctuously (483)
        croon (484)
        ruckus (486)
        grievously (488)

Chapter 20: Mais Army
        implacable (501)
        forlornly (505)
        despondently (505)
        obliterated (506)
        screels (509)
        gaunt (515, 671)
        guerilla (516)
        sapper (516)

Chapter 21: The Real Buckhead
        megalomaniacal (527)
        vilifications (529)
        ostensible (529)
        laudable (530)
        stupendous (531)
        muntins (532)
        shucked (533)
        architraves (533)
        gabardine (534)
        chintz-covered (534)
        sumptuous (534)
        statice (534)
        puttees (534, 539, 545)
        apprised (536, apprise 698)
        gadrooned (538)
        chicory (539)
        ambrosial (539)
        visceral (540, 714)
        entre nous (541, 575)
        kave (543, 633)
        epithets (544)
        bastion (544)
        benighted (544)
        Bemberg (545)

Chapter 22: Chambodia
        voluble (547)
        octogenarian (547)
        wizened (547)
        carnal (548)
        berating (548, berate 679)
        pantomime (550)
        decrepit (551, -ude 720)
        ravenously (553)
        patronizing (556)
        pique (558)
        barouches (570)
        indolence (570)
        penology (572)
        aubergine (573)
        guayabera (574)
        patois (575)
        Mammon (577)

Chapter 23: The Deal
        estimable (580)
        chiasma (583)
        hypnagogic (583)
        omnipotent (583)
        fenestration (585)
        sartorial (587)
        faux (587)
        arrant (595)
        inimitable (597)
        ponzi (598)
        gloaming (598)
        doges (599)
        superannuated (604)
        puissance (604)
        Priapus (606)
        fin de siècle (608)

Chapter 24: Gridiron Heroes
        château (610)
        liriope (610)
        aphrodisiac (611)
        lumen (611)
        psychokinetic (616)

        petulant (623)
        scrip (625)
        abjectly (628, 737, abject 653)

Chapter 25: Starring Darwell Scruggs
        cogitation (629)
        bombastic (630)
        grandiloquence (631)
        unfathomable (631)
        morbidly (632, morbid 686)
        cocksureness (632)
        insidious (633)
        raiment (633)
        impudent (633)
        ischemia (635)
        flotilla (635, 710)
        colostomy (636)
        credenza (636)
        consummate (636)
        solar plexus (637)
        basso profundo (641)

Chapter 26: Holding Hands
        nonchalantly (642)
        aide-de-camp (643)
        conscript (643)
        equanimity (643)
        lugubriously (644, lugubrious 702)
        euchre (644)
        vivacious (649)
        melancholy (649)
        formidable (652)
        narcoleptic (652)
        chiaroscuro (653)
        incredulity (653)
        crestfallen (656)

Chapter 27: The Screen
        epidural (657)
        magnanimous (660)
        incessant (662)
        capacious (664)
        galoshes (664)
        chortle (665)
        bric-a-brac (668)
        chockablock (668)
        bereft (669, 676)
        matelassé counterpane (669, 718)
        malevolent (669, 697)
        narcosis (670)
        regiphobia (670)
        reneged (671)
        finesse (674)

Chapter 28: The Spark of Zeus
        promiscuous (675)
        ineradicable (675)
        furtive (679)
        insolent (680)
        iconoclast (686)
        euphonious(687)
        pugnacious (687)
        premonition (689)

Chapter 29: Epictetus in Buckhead
        august (693)
        ornery (694)
        crotchety (694)
        moribund (695)
        chorea (696)
        granulomatosis (696)
        fauteuils (697)
        commodes Bombay (697)
        exulting (698, exultation 767)
        penitent (700)
        lissome (701)
        obstreperous (702)
        delegation (707)
        ultimatum (707)

Chapter 30: The Bull and the Lion
        tuber (709)
        euphemism (709, 735)
        double entendre (710)
        veritable (710)
        damask (710)
        contralto (712)
        troupe (712)
        egregious (714)
        rendezvous (716)
        raillery (716)
        wry (717)
        hectoring (717)
        peremptory (717)
        mons veneris (719)
        agog (720)
        louvered (720)
        curriculum vitae (721)
        declaiming (724)
        dejectedly (725)
        demure (728)
        renown (731)

Chapter 31: Roger Black
        embroidering (733)
        grousing (736)
        exasperation (741)
        epitome (741, 743)
        ensconced (742)
        redoubt (742)
        effete (742)
        innocuous (744)
        concocted (748)
        conniving (749)
        taciturn (751)

Chapter 32: The Manager
        rotunda (755)
        dais (755)
        translucent (756)
        Schadenfreude (756)
        paramount (757)
        recitation (758)
        homily (758)
        grimaced (758)
        besmirched (760)
        heinous (760)
        canard (761)
        tricolon (761)
        sortie (762)
        self-deprecation (762)
        genteel (762)
        minion (763)
        voracious (768)
        vilify (770)
        beleaguered (770)

Epilogue: A Man of the World
        preposterous (774)
        sabotage (775)
        plutocrat (775)
        hyperbole (779)
        privy (780)
        capitulation (783)


Last updated 10 January 2012

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