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"Barabary was struck by how casually her new husband tossed his Uzi on the bed before taking a shower." (p.
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Uzi: a type of submachine gun of Israeli design. Pretend you are five years old." And he got away with it!' " (p. 'The night before the work was due, Amos turned to Amnon and said, "Amnon, lie down on the couch. "His classmate Amia Lieblich witnessed Amos's insouciance after he'd been assigned by a professor to administer an intelligence test to a five-year-old child. Insouciance: casual lack of concern indifference. " abnegation of social responsibility" (p. 97)Ībnegation: the act of renouncing or rejecting something. "a preternatural gift for doing only precisely what he wanted to do" (p. Preternatural: beyond what is normal or natural. "He minimized quotidian tasks he thought a waste of time - he could be found in the middle of the day, having just woken up, driving himself to work while shaving and brushing his teeth in the rearview mirror." (p. Quotidian: ordinary or everyday, especially when mundane. "a disquisition on the differences between Americans and Israelis" (p. 90)ĭisquisition: a long or elaborate essay or discussion on a particular subject. After her father's death she'd lived on a kibbutz, which she loathed" (p. "She'd turned up one day, morosely, in their high school class. Kibbutz: a communal settlement in Israel, typically a farm. "His mother, Genia Tversky, was a social force and political operator who became a mebmer of the first Israeli Parliament, and the next four after that." (p. Operator: a person who acts in a specified, especially a manipulative, way. 86)įorce: a person or thing regarded as exerting power or influence. "In the fog of battle, he was strafed not just by Egyptian but also Isaeli warplanes." (p. Strafe: attack repeatedly with bombs or machine-gun fire from low-flying aircraft.
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80)įog: something that obscures and confuses a situation or someone's thought processes. "psychoanalysts who tried to predict what would become of their neurotic patients fared poorly compared to simple algorithms" (p. Neurotic: abnormally sensitive, obsessive, or tense and anxious. had been spending twenty minutes with each new recruit and from the encounter offering a general impression of the recruit's character." (p. Halo effect: the tendency for an impression created in one area to influence opinion in another area. Rebuff: reject (someone or something) in an abrupt or ungracious manner. "Danny's platoon was meant to circle around the village and ambush any Arab forces." (p. Platoon: a subdivision of a company of soldiers, usually forming a tactical unit that is commanded by a lieutenant and divided into several sections. Preposterous: contrary to reason or common sense utterly absurd or ridiculous.ĭanny was younger, and dressed in a jacket and tie, which struck the other students as preposterous." (p. "The minaret on the beach beside what is now the Intercontinental Hotel became an Arab sniper nest." (p. Minaret: a tall slender tower, typically part of a mosque, with a balcony from which a muezzin calls Muslims to prayer. "freet o travel to Paris to see what remained of their home and chattels" (p. 53)Ĭhattel: (in general use) a personal possession an item of property other than real estate. he was jailed in the makeshift prison in Drancey" (p. "after he'd been taken away in a big seep in November 1941. Makeshift: serving as a temporary substitute sufficient for the time being. Sweep: a comprehensive search or survey of a place or area. "If these putative experts could be misled about the value of their predictions, who would not be misled?" (p. "It was curious, when you thoguht about it, that such a putatively competitive market as a market for highly paid athletes could be so inefficient in the first place." (p. Putative: generally considered or reputed to be. " fiendishly complicated alarm clock" (p. Vagary: an unexpected and inexplicable change in a situation or in someone's behavior. "used the draft pick as the biggest chit in a deal to land a superstar, James Harden" (p. 16)Ĭhit: a short official note, memorandum, or voucher, typically recording a sum owed.
#Rarify and i nspire series#
"In 2004, after aping Oakland's approach to baseball decision making, the Boston Red Sox won their first World Series in nearly a century." (p.
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SAT Vocabulary Words Ape: imitate the behavior or manner of (someone or something), especially in an absurd or unthinking way. Here's a partial vocabulary list for The Undoing Project.