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Westing Game Vocabulary

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Westing Game Vocabulary

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    1. Westing Game Vocabulary

    2. Tenants

    3. Tenants People who pay rent for an apartment.

    4. Exclusive Exclude

    5. Exclusive Fancy Expensive Special Keeping some people out

    6. Chandeliers

    7. Chandeliers Hotel lobby Fancy restaurant Home

    8. Bookie

    9. Bookie A person who takes illegal bets.

    10. Relinquish The governor had to relinquish his office. Give up Let go Release Resign

    11. Incompetence I was astounded by the doctor’s incompetence. He amputated the wrong leg! Lack of ability Not legally qualified

    12. Eccentric The eccentric man kept a shark in his swimming pool. Out of the ordinary Usual A person who behaves in an unusual manner.

    13. Invalid The invalid had to stay in bed during her recovery. A person is weak because of sickness or injury

    14. Morbid I did not want to hear the morbid details about the deadly car crash. Horrible Gruesome Grisly

    15. Executor A person named in a will to carry out the provisions of the will.

    16. Asylum

    17. Asylum Institution for the support and care of the mentally ill or other people who need help

    18. Asylum A place for people with mental illness.

    19. Beneficiary A person who receives money from a will.

    20. Heiress A person who inherits something after the death of the owner. Heir—male Heiress—female

    21. Legacy 1. Money or property that has been handed down in a will. 2. Something that has been handed down from an ancestor.

    22. Mourning The wearing of black or some other color to show sorrow for a person’s death.

    23. Pudgy Chubby

    24. Ample Fully sufficient or more than adequate for the purpose or needs Plentiful Enough an ample supply of water ample time to finish

    25. Putrid In a state of foul decay or decomposition, as animal or vegetable matter Rotten Having the odor of decaying flesh

    26. Corpse A dead body

    27. Coroner A person who examines a dead body to determine the cause of death.

    28. Autopsy inspection and dissection of a body after death, as for determination of the cause of death postmortem examination A coroner conducts and autopsy

    29. Reverence A feeling of deep gratitude or respect

    30. Pompous Characterized by an overblown sense of importance Thinks he or she is “all that”

    31. Indignant expressing strong displeasure at something considered unjust, offensive, insulting, or base Showing that you feel insulted

    32. Shrewd Clever Smart Tricky

    33. Pretentious Pompous Making an exaggerated outward show Ostentatious

    34. Incriminating To cause to appear guilty of a crime or fault Implicate Points the finger at

    35. Contempt The feeling with which a person regards anything considered mean, vile, or worthless Disdain Scorn An act showing such disrespect

    36. Envy Jealousy Wanting what someone else has

    37. Felon A person who has committed a felony A criminal

    38. Alibi The defense by an accused person of having been elsewhere at the time an alleged offense was committed An excuse

    39. Sappy Silly or foolish Sticky sweet

    40. Petrified Scared to death To benumb or paralyze with astonishment, horror, or other strong emotion

    41. Flattery Insincere praise Saying nice things to get something

    42. Obsequious Servile, compliant or deferential Fawning Doing everything the other person says

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