Catcher in the Rye Vocabulary List

WORD DEFINITION
innumerable countless
scrawny thin
grippe influenza
foils swords
sadist torturer
falsetto high voice
exhibitionist show-off
qualms misgivings
unscrupulous unprincipled
hound’s tooth checked pattern
gore blood
tiff spat (argument)
pacifist peace-lover
Gladstones suitcases
lavish extravagant
conscientious upright
rostrum speaker’s platform
incognito with concealed identity
pervert abnormal person
psychic spiritual
putrid rotten
verification confirmation
immaterial inconsequential
suave smoothly polite
sterling extremely fine
crocked drunk
château large country house
nonchalant casual
clavichord type of piano
bourgeois middle-class
cliques exclusive groups
blasé unconcerned
sacrilegious against religion
atheism disbeliever in God
seductive alluring
inane pointless
foyer entry hall
ostracize banish
digress deviate
spontaneous unplanned
pedagogue teacher
provocative stimulating
harrowing distressed
reciprocal mutual
infinitely endlessly
scraggy unkempt