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James Thurber
“Thurberisms”
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December 8, 1894 – November 2, 1961
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Thurberisms• “It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.”
• “Let us not look back to the past with anger, nor towards the future with feat, but look around with awareness.
• “You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.” • “The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of
sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.”
• “Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?”
• “Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead.”
• “He who hesitates is sometimes saved.”
• “All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.”
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Vocabulary for“The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”By James Thurber
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1.coreopsis (271)
Daisy-like flowers
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2. disdainful (271)
expressing disgust
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3. satire (271)
a literary work that ridicules or pokes fun at a situation
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4. relished (271)
enjoyed; ;to enjoy or to please
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5. inconsistency (271)
not staying the same
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6. buffeted (271)
beaten back
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7.rakishly (272)
having a trim neat appearance
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8.grossly (273)
very wrong; immediately obvious
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9.lurched (273)
to suddenly roll, pitch, or sway to one side
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10. tertiary (273)
a third time
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11. craven (274)
cowardly, afraid
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12. grave (274)
requiring serious thought
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13.bicarbonate (275)
an acid salt of carbonic acid used to settle upset stomachs; an antacid, like “Alka-seltzer”
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14. pandemonium (275)
wild disorder, noise or confusion
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15. bedlam (275)
any noisy, confused place or situation; noise and confusion; uproar
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16. cur (275)
a person who is mean, contemptible or worthless, cowardly
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17. cannonading (276)
a continuous firing of artillery
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18. barrage (276)
a curtain of artillery fire laid down to keep enemy forces from moving
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19. derisive (277)
ridiculing, making fun of
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20. inscrutable (277)
mysterious; that which cannot be understood
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Extra Credit: Ellipsis
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