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: God’s
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: Mai’s
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
Copyright © 2012 William O. Stephens