A Likely Story: Nine Stories

VOCABULARY LISTS IN THIS COLLECTION:

• "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" by J.D. Salinger

  Jump to activity:
  • monopolize
  • beige
  • continual
  • puberty
  • accentuate
  • congest
  • incidentally
  • tramp
  • translation
  • honor
  • psychiatrist
  • fresh
  • sequin
  • rave
  • delicate
  • oblique
  • lapel
  • prone
  • protruding
  • prod
  • vigorously
  • stoop
  • secure
  • elaborate
  • foremost
  • peculiar
  • horizon
  • snub
  • snob
  • level
  • cumbersome
  • plod
  • salve
  • sneak
  • operate

• "Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut" by J.D. Salinger

  Jump to activity:
  • ambiguous
  • peculiar
  • aviation
  • cadet
  • lean
  • prompt
  • cameo
  • brooch
  • monogram
  • wherewithal
  • erect
  • chauffeur
  • galosh
  • beau
  • myopia
  • provocative
  • cordially
  • lunge
  • execute
  • upright
  • draft
  • cardigan
  • diaphragm
  • promotion
  • stark
  • infantry
  • navel
  • witty
  • critical
  • ghoul
  • regiment
  • lavatory
  • hoist
  • feverish
  • languidly
  • platoon
  • foyer
  • submit
  • stagger
  • plead

• "Just Before the War with the Eskimos" by J.D. Salinger

  Jump to activity:
  • ostensibly
  • edification
  • conjure
  • finality
  • clemency
  • hostile
  • brisk
  • oblivious
  • self-conscious
  • amateur
  • indicator
  • virtually
  • aplomb
  • sentimentality
  • emphasize
  • vacant
  • appeal
  • sparse
  • inflection
  • obscure
  • unveil
  • dispassionate
  • resent
  • slump
  • crevice
  • vaudeville
  • larynx
  • anathema
  • competent
  • microscopic
  • decency
  • sibilant
  • insincere
  • paraphernalia
  • dispose

• "The Laughing Man" by J.D. Salinger

  Jump to activity:
  • irate
  • impartial
  • bedlam
  • stocky
  • amalgamate
  • tenor
  • missionary
  • pique
  • vise
  • dilate
  • vacuole
  • respiration
  • gossamer
  • machete
  • whet
  • mausoleum
  • flaunt
  • ascetic
  • glib
  • unrequited
  • blunder
  • bogus
  • regal
  • ominously
  • incognito
  • mediocre
  • hedge
  • offhand
  • wistfully
  • disconcerting
  • flair
  • incompetence
  • adamant
  • surmise
  • supine
  • proportionate
  • fastidious
  • rationalize
  • vial
  • wan

• "Down at the Dinghy" by J.D. Salinger

  Jump to activity:
  • slack
  • enamel
  • customary
  • helm
  • rancorous
  • hostile
  • ermine
  • brittle
  • immoderate
  • uninhibited
  • pendulum
  • sociable
  • contempt
  • assortment
  • degenerate
  • refuge
  • glaring
  • stern
  • dinghy
  • pier
  • refraction
  • audible
  • tiller
  • admiral
  • port
  • ceremonious
  • profoundly
  • petty
  • venerable
  • sextant
  • fleet
  • deft
  • constructive
  • perception
  • defiance
  • gingerly
  • emphatic
  • subside
  • muffled
  • decorous

• "For Esmé–with Love and Squalor" by J.D. Salinger

  Jump to activity:
  • edify
  • imperceptibly
  • synchronize
  • rostrum
  • levitation
  • blase
  • dissonant
  • deadpan
  • radiant
  • enviable
  • snobbish
  • filament
  • gregarious
  • sensuous
  • baffle
  • reflective
  • extrovert
  • introvert
  • candid
  • receptive
  • appendage
  • myopic
  • queue
  • importunate
  • mirth
  • posterity
  • avid
  • prolific
  • squalor
  • propensity
  • vicinity
  • livid
  • faculty
  • cunningly
  • armistice
  • inscription
  • illegible
  • interdependent
  • vacuous
  • listless
  • resonant
  • unstable
  • saddle
  • talisman
  • ecstatic

• "Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes" by J.D. Salinger

  Jump to activity:
  • deference
  • disingenuous
  • perfunctory
  • grope
  • graze
  • vivid
  • conventional
  • resonant
  • speculative
  • chiefly
  • obscene
  • scintillating
  • gaiety
  • dilate
  • tactless
  • incidentally
  • summation
  • plaintiff
  • ruckus
  • stoic
  • countenance
  • oblivion
  • sincerity
  • paramount
  • jurisdiction
  • lather
  • pathetic
  • in a nutshell
  • fluctuate
  • accumulation
  • brisk
  • rat race
  • neurotic
  • undermine
  • under the weather

• "De Daumier-Smith’s Blue Period" by J.D. Salinger

  Jump to activity:
  • ribald
  • begrudge
  • picaresque
  • incapacitated
  • curt
  • prudent
  • elated
  • dispensation
  • capricious
  • cavernous
  • vivacious
  • stipulate
  • temperate
  • formidable
  • pseudonym
  • ruddy
  • disaffected
  • laconic
  • terse
  • unimpeachable
  • wanton
  • berth
  • depravity
  • tenement
  • en masse
  • sternum
  • supine
  • coagulate
  • sheaf
  • whit
  • waylay
  • emulate
  • arresting
  • foreground
  • credo
  • disarray
  • grandiose
  • motley
  • impious
  • mongrel
  • cavil
  • tacit
  • magpie
  • verbatim
  • syntax

• "Teddy" by J.D. Salinger

  Jump to activity:
  • masochistic
  • incongruous
  • nape
  • precariously
  • apt
  • serial
  • narcissistic
  • inert
  • inundated
  • precocious
  • loll
  • gallivant
  • perfunctorily
  • aft
  • preside
  • ensign
  • alfresco
  • paraphernalia
  • methodical
  • placard
  • pleasantry
  • demeanor
  • solemnity
  • notation
  • condolence
  • obtrusively
  • effects
  • oblivious
  • proviso
  • sacrilege
  • manna
  • connotation
  • cicada
  • intimate
  • pedant
  • forte
  • affinity
  • reincarnation
  • benediction
  • incarnation
  • sophistry
  • impassive
  • brusquely
  • tentatively
  • ignoramus