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// Reading Assignment #4: The Catcher in the Rye p. 98-134. // ** VOCABULARY ** ** Part I: Using Prior Knowledge and Contextual Clues ** // Below are the sentences in which the //[|//vocabulary//] // words appear in the text. Read the sentence. Use any clues you can find in the sentence combined with your prior knowledge, and write what you think the underlined words mean in the space provided. //

22. . . . I'm sort of an __atheist__. I like Jesus and all, but I don't care too much for most of the other stuff in the Bible. // (a person who doesnt believe in god) // 23. . . . He picked them at random. I said He didn't have time to go around analyzing everybody.

24. He was always saying snotty things about them, my suitcases for instance. He kept saying they were too new and __bourgeois.__ // a person who stands out //

25. She'd hand in her basket and then go someplace __swanky__ for lunch. That's what I liked about those nuns. You could tell, for one thing, that they never went anywhere swanky for lunch. It made me so damn sad when I thought about it, they’re never going anywhere swanky for lunch or anything. (//expensive )// 26. . . . he was one of the biggest bores I ever met. He had one of those very __raspy__ voices, and he never stopped talking, practically. ( rough) 27. He was with some gorgeous blonde, and the two of them were trying to be very __blasé'__ and all, like as if he didn't even know people were looking at him. (unintersting ) // Part II: Determining the Meaning Match the vocabulary words to their dictionary definitions. // // If there are words for which you cannot figure out the definition by contextual clues and by // // process of elimination, look them up in a dictionary. //

22. atheist ﻿(c) A. Smug, conventional, materialistic 23. random (F) B. Grating 24. bourgeois(A) C. A person who believes there is no God 25. swanky ﻿(E) D. Having done something so much as to be bored by it 26. raspy (b) E. Expensive and showy 27. blasé!(D) F. Haphazardly; by chance