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Modern Fiction
Voc List 1: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
1) intolerable (adj.) insupportable, unbearable.
2) Pinochle n: A game of cards for two to four persons, played with a special deck of 48 cards, with points being scored by taking
tricks and forming certain combinations; The combination of the queen of spades and jack of diamonds in this game
3) callus n: a thickening of or a hard thickened area on skin
4) sinewy adj: stringy and tough; Lean and muscular;Strong and vigorous
5) replica n: A copy or reproduction of a work of art, especially one made by the original artist. A copy or reproduction, especially
one on a scale smaller than the original.
6) rasps v: To utter in a grating voice
7) hostility n: The state of being hostile; antagonism or enmity
8) Gurney n: A metal stretcher with wheeled legs, used for transporting patients
9) Commenced v: began; started.
10) Billowed v: swelled out or bulged
11) Embalmers n: a mortician who treats corpses with preservatives
12) Passel n: A large quantity or group
13) Sadistic adj: deriving pleasure from inflicting pain on another
14) Id In Freudian theory, the division of the psyche that is totally unconscious and serves as the source of instinctual impulses and
demands for immediate satisfaction of primitive needs
ego In psychoanalytic theory, the division of the psyche that is conscious, most immediately controls thought and behavior, and
mediates between the person and external reality.
superego (psychoanalysis) that part of the unconscious mind that acts as a conscience
15) Egomania n: Obsessive preoccupation with the self.
16) Ethereally adv: in a way characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; intangibly
n: A drug, hormone, or other chemical substance having sedative or narcotic effects similar to those
containing opium or its derivatives; Something that dulls the senses and induces relaxation or torpor
17) opiate
18) Coiffure n: A hairstyle
19) Juggernaut n: An overwhelming, advancing force that crushes or seems to crush everything in its path
20) Matriarchy n. A social system in which the mother is head of the family. A family, community, or society based on this system
or governed by women