Unit 6: Novel Study: The Namesake, Chapters 5–7

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  1. emancipate
    free from slavery or servitude
  2. resignation
    the act of giving up, as a claim or office or possession
  3. sanction
    official permission or approval
  4. convoluted
    highly complex or intricate
  5. harried
    troubled persistently, especially with petty annoyances
  6. inevitable
    incapable of being avoided or prevented
  7. goad
    urge with or as if with a prod
  8. incidental
    minor or casual or subordinate in significance or nature
  9. flirtatious
    behaving in a way to suggest a playful attraction to someone
  10. pilaster
    a flat, decorative, rectangular column attached to a wall
  11. vociferous
    conspicuously and offensively loud
  12. deliberation
    careful consideration
  13. unkempt
    not properly maintained or cared for
  14. minimalist
    of or relating to extreme simplification of form and color
  15. spartan
    marked by simplicity, frugality, or self-denial
  16. solicitous
    showing hovering attentiveness
  17. reverent
    feeling or showing profound respect or veneration
  18. perpetually
    everlastingly; for all time
  19. fruitful
    productive or conducive to producing in abundance
  20. banality
    the quality of lacking interestingness
  21. commotion
    a disorderly outburst or tumult
  22. haughtiness
    overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner
  23. uniformity
    a condition in which everything is regular and unvarying
  24. wan
    lacking vitality as from weariness or illness or unhappiness
  25. mundane
    found in the ordinary course of events
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