Sentences for Vocabulary 61-70

Part One of In Cold Blood

  1. keening (page 5) – But then, in the earliest hours of hours of that morning in November, a Sunday morning, certain foreign sounds impinged on the normal nightly Holcomb noises—on the keening hysteria of coyotes, the dry scrape of scuttling tumbleweed, the racing, receding wail of locomotive whistles.
  2. equanimity (page 10) – Otherwise he was known for his equanimity, his charitableness, and the fact that he paid good wages and distributed frequent bonuses . . .
  3. wan (page 21) –When she had first appeared in Holcomb, a melancholy, imaginative child, willowy and wan and sensitive, then eight, a year younger than Nancy, the Clutters had so ardently adopted her that the fatherless little girl from California soon same to seem a member of the family.
  4. ineffable (page 23)–“Because he hates me,” said Perry. . . “So does your mother. I could see –the ineffable way they looked at me.”
  5. agog (page 24) – Nancy and her protégé, Jolene Katz, were also satisfied with their morning’s work; indeed the latter, a thin thirteen-year-old, was agog with pride.
  6. wanton (page 32) – Along with Buffalo Jones, who lost his money and then his mind (the last years of his life were spent haranguing street groups against the wanton extermination of the beasts he himself had slaughtered), the glamours of the past are today entombed.
  7. coterie (page 34)– As an educated man successful in his profession, as an eminent Republican and church leader—even though of the Methodist church—Mr. Clutter was entitled to rank among the local patricians, but just as he had never joined the Garden City Country Club, he had never sought to associate with the reigning coterie.
  8. sullen (page 54) – Dick’s eyes and sullen expression and Perry’s strange, prolonged sojourn in the lavatory disturbed him.
  9. caustic (page 67) – “Yes, it’s a disgrace,” agrees the caustic, somewhat original, and entirely imposing lady who presides over this litter.
  10. indemnity (page 71) – Murdered. Meaning double indemnity.

Vocabulary 61-70

Part One of In Cold Blood

  1. keening (page 5)
  2. equanimity (page 10)
  3. wan (page 21)
  4. ineffable (page 23)
  5. agog (page 24)
  6. wanton (page 32)
  7. coterie (page 34)
  8. sullen (page 54)
  9. caustic (page 67)
  10. indemnity (page 71)

Vocabulary 61-70

Part One of In Cold Blood

  1. keening (page 5)
  2. equanimity (page 10)
  3. wan (page 21)
  4. ineffable (page 23)
  5. agog (page 24)
  6. wanton (page 32)
  7. coterie (page 34)
  8. sullen (page 54)
  9. caustic (page 67)
  10. indemnity (page 71)