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Holiday Memories: A Vocabulary Delight

Join in the festive spirit with Truman Capote's rich vocabulary in "A Christmas Memory." Immerse yourself in the inaugural muse of the season as you explore the paraphernalia, ermine, and carnage of the holidays. Let the text festoon your imagination, burnish your festive cheer, and reveal the conspiracy of joy. Discover the beauty in noncommittal reflections, distemper laughter, and sacrilegious revelry. Escape the prosaic and rollick into a potent cavort of words with this seasonal skinflint tale.

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Holiday Memories: A Vocabulary Delight

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  1. A Christmas Memoryby Truman Capote Vocabulary

  2. Inaugurate

  3. Inaugurate • to make a formal beginning of; initiate; commence; begin

  4. Inaugurate

  5. Muse

  6. Muse • to think or meditate in silence, as on some subject.

  7. Muse

  8. Paraphernalia

  9. Paraphernalia • equipment, apparatus, or furnishing used in or necessary for a particular activity:

  10. Paraphernalia

  11. Ermine

  12. Ermine • thelustrous, white, winter fur of the ermine, oftenhaving fur fromthe animal's black tail tip inserted at intervalsfor contrast.

  13. Ermine

  14. Carnage

  15. Carnage • the slaughter of a great number of people, as in battle; butchery; massacre.

  16. Carnage

  17. festooned

  18. festooned • a fabric suspended, draped, and bound at intervals to form graceful loops or scalloped folds.

  19. festooned

  20. burnish

  21. burnish • to polish (a surface) by friction.

  22. burnish

  23. conspiracy

  24. conspiracy • a combination of persons for a secret, unlawful, or evil purpose: He joined the conspiracy to overthrow the government. • Law . an agreement by two or more persons to commit a crime, fraud, or other wrongful act. • any concurrence in action;combination in bringing about a given result.

  25. conspiracy

  26. noncommittal

  27. noncommittal • not committing oneself, or not involving committal, to a particular view, course, or the like

  28. noncommittal

  29. distemper

  30. distemper • a deranged condition of mind or body; a disorder or disease:

  31. distemper

  32. sacrilegious

  33. sacrilegious • Violating something sacred (not necessarily religious)

  34. sacrilegious It is sacrilegious to talk to a pitcher during a no hitter.

  35. prosaic

  36. prosaic • commonplace or dull; matter-of-fact or unimaginative:

  37. prosaic

  38. rollick

  39. rollick • to move or act in a carefree, frolicsome manner; behave in a free, hearty, or jovial way.

  40. rollick

  41. potent

  42. potent • powerful; mighty:

  43. potent

  44. cavort

  45. cavort • to prance or caper about. • to behave in a high-spirited, festive manner; make merry.

  46. cavort

  47. skinflint

  48. skinflint • Miser • Mean person

  49. skinflint

  50. decease

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