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Like Water for Chocolate Vocabulary I Chapters 7-12

"You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his manservant or maidservant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor"(Exodus 20:17).
 * **Word and Pg ** || **Sentence from Book ** || **p.o.s. ** || **Definition ** || **Example ** ||
 * Covetously (6) || "He would peek into his bag every now and then, and he would roll his eyes and swivel his scrawny neck, trying to catch people looking covetously at his bag"(6). || adv. || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">inordinately or wrongly desirous of wealth or posse[[image:i/c.gif width="10" height="21"]]ssions; greedy || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">One of the 10 Commandments is
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Covetously (6) || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">"He would peek into his bag every now and then, and he would roll his eyes and swivel his scrawny neck, trying to catch people looking covetously at his bag"(6). || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">adv. || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">inordinately or wrongly desirous of wealth or posse[[image:i/c.gif width="10" height="21"]]ssions; greedy || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">One of the 10 Commandments is

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">http://jameswoodward.wordpress.com/2008/10/14/greed/ ||
 * calamity (120) ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * insinuation (132) || With a smile at her malicious insinuation, John went over to taste the ox-tail soup that had been left untouched on the tray. || noun || an indirect or covert suggestion or hint ||  ||
 * purgative (135) || and then she took, in addition, a swig of syrup of ipecac and another of squill onion as a purgative || noun/ adj. || purging or cleansing,

a purgative medicine or agent ||  ||
 * mausoleum (138) || But then she saw a group pf people approaching the mausoleum and from a distance she made out Pedro's silhouette || noun || a stately and magnificent tomb ||  ||
 * paradisiacal (147) || and with the gruels and the teas she was growing healthier among the tastes and smells of this warm paradisical place ||  ||   ||   ||
 * amicable (155) || Tita's entrance stopped the discussion and forced them to try to begin a conversation in a more amicable tone. || adj. || characterized by or showing goodwill; friendly; peaceable ||  ||
 * perpetuating (147) || Tita prayed that the idea of perpetuating this cruel tradition would not cross Rosauara's mind. || verb || to make perpetual

to preserve from extinction or oblivion: // to perpetuate one's // ||  || a sumptuous feast ||  ||
 * putrid (150) || Better to have swallowed them and kept them deep in her bowels until they were putrid and worm-eater. || adj. || in a state of foul decay or decomposition ||  ||
 * acrid (165) || which will make the chocolate bitter and acrid. || adj. || sharp or biting to the taste or smell; bitterly pungent; irritating to the eyes, nose ||  ||
 * regaling (179) || was regaling them with fantastic stories of the battles she'd been in. || verb/noun || to entertain lavishly or agreeably; delight.
 * besieging (179) || besieging her with questions about her part in the revolution || verb || to lay siege to

to assail or ply, as with requests or demands ||  || to pass time doing nothing the state or quality of being idle ||  ||  disinclined or unwilling  ||   || to hand down; pass on. ||  ||  brilliant; masterly; extraordinarily lucid  ||   ||
 * chide (191) || Tita didn't know whether to chide or thank Gertrudis for her interference || verb || to express disapproval of; scold; reproach: ||  ||
 * unprecedented (195) || in an undprecedented display of violence, he killed the traitor, by beating him to death || adj. || without previous instance; never before known or experienced; ||  ||
 * brazen (198) || How could Pedro be so Brazen! || adj. || shameless or impudent ||  ||
 * illicit (199) || Or didn't you have an illicit child? || adj. || not legally permitted or authorized; unlicensed; unlawful. ||  ||
 * conspicuous (210) || but it was conspicuous by its abscence; there really wasn't a thing || adj. || easily seen or noticed; readily visible or observable ||  ||
 * idle (220) || Her favorite saying was Idle hands are the devil's playground || verb/adj./noun || not working or active; unemployed; doing nothing
 * impeccably (221) || Despite her years, she was impeccably turned out. || adj. || faultless; flawless; irrepro not not liable to sin; incapable of sin. ||   ||
 * indisposed (221) || saying she was indisposed, and invited them to move into the dining room || adj. || sick or ill, especially slightly
 * indefatigable (229) || Only those two indefatigable women were continuting to the bottom of the mountain || adj. || incapable of being tired out; not yielding to fatigue; untiring ||  ||
 * meticulously (231) || Everything he would wear was meticulously arranged, waiting for the moment to dress. || adj. || taking or showing extreme care about minute details; precise ||  ||
 * torrid (245) || when the candle she chewed made contact with the torrid images she evoked. || adj. || oppressively hot, parching, or burning, as climate, weather, or air. ||  ||
 * bequeathed (246) || which she bequeathed to me when she died, and which tells in each of its recipes this story of a love interred || verb || to dispose of
 * incandescent (219) || Causing the flesh beneath her skin to touch of those incandescent hands. || adj. || intensely bright; brilliant