The Night the Bed Fell Vocabulary

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The Night the Bed Fell Vocabulary

• By James Thurber

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Uncanny

• Odd, strange

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Crotchets

• Whimsical or stubborn idea or opinion

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Premonition

• warning omen

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Chloroform

• Laughing gas anesthetic

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Symbolism

• when something represents or stands for something
  else

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Recitation

• reading narrating

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Verisimilitude

• probability likelihood

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Grope

• fumble about feel for

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Opposed

• against

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Notion

• idea thought

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Apprehension

• uneasiness hesitation

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Ominous

• threatening doomed

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Pungent

• strong sharp

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Cease

• stop

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Accustomed

• used to ordinary usual

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Intervals

• parts sections

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Allay

• ease calm still

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Avert

• turn away or aside

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Calamity

• disaster misadventure

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Extricate

• clear away untangle

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Phobia

• fear

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Fortitude

• resolution courage moral strength

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Presently

• right away soon

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Culprit

• crook criminal

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Adjoining

• next to touching