Unit 6: Selection Vocabulary 3

This list covers "Advice to Little Girls" and Lumberjanes Vol. 1: Beware the Kitten Holy.
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  1. retaliation
    action taken in return for an injury or offense
    Good little girls ought not to make mouths at their teachers for every trifling offense. This retaliation should only be resorted to under peculiarly aggravated circumstances.
  2. obtuse
    lacking in insight or discernment
    In all ages of the world this eminently plausible fiction has lured the obtuse infant to financial ruin and disaster.
  3. inculcate
    teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions
    It is better to scald him a little, for then you obtain desirable results. You secure his immediate attention to the lessons you are inculcating, and at the same time your hot water will have a tendency to move impurities from his person, and possibly the skin, in spots.
  4. intimate
    imply as a possibility
    If your mother tells you to do a thing, it is wrong to reply that you won't. It is better and more becoming to intimate that you will do as she bids you, and then afterward act quietly in the matter according to the dictates of your best judgment.
  5. prejudice
    a partiality preventing objective consideration of an issue
    Therefore you ought to respect their little prejudices, and humor their little whims, and put up with their little foibles until they get to crowding you too much.
  6. figure out
    find the solution to or understand the meaning of
    We're never going to figure this out if we can't even find...
  7. formation
    an arrangement of people or things acting as a unit
    That wasn't the plan though! That's not what Little Red Formation IS!
  8. cryptic
    having a secret or hidden meaning
    We'll decode the cryptic message later.
  9. banter
    light teasing repartee
    Do I look like I'm in the mood for snappy banter?
  10. solemnly
    in a serious and dignified manner
    I solemnly swear to do my best every day.
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