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A Streetcar Named Desire Vocabulary

serene = calm; undisturbed

Everything became more serene once the baby finally fell asleep.

morbid = gruesome; grisly

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The morbid murder scene was too much to show on television.

Summary

A Streetcar Named Desire is a 1947 play written by American playwright Tennessee Williams[1] for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1948.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Streetcar_Named_Desire_(play)

Primitive: simple; crude

lunacy: insanity; madness

The instructions of the game were so primitive, it was impossible to mess up.

perpetual: continual,

everlasting

There was such lunacy when Tom voices his opinion on racism.

The stench was so perpetual, I thought the smell would get stuck to my clothes.

Vulgar:rude; offensive

row = a fight; a brawl

The girl used such vulgar language when she argued with her peers.

Solemn: deeply serious

The row against the 11th and 10th graders caused a lot of comotion.

His mother was solemn when she told him that she had cancer. He chose not to believe her.

Decay: rotted matter

My great uncle's teeth started to decay because he wouldn't brush his teeth corretly.

Evoke: bring to mind

The incident in school evoked the things that happened in John's dream

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Incongruous: out of place, or

Emblem: symbol; sign

Coca-Cola has a specific emblem that everyone knows and can recognize.

incompatible

Valise: a traveling bag; a suitcase

preen: to clean; to groom

I found out my valise was lost once I reached my destination.

I had to preen the family dog because he got really dirty after playing outside.

Noah's parents felt as though everything in his room was incongruous.

Treachery: deceit; betrayal

There was such treachery when a member of the group left them to join another.

peruse: read through

Every time Katie gets a new toy, she peruses the instructions before she decides to play with it.

deluded = be mentally deceived

Sarah felt as though she was deluded when her parents sent her to a therapist.

Wince: to flinch

My brother winced every time his tooth started to ache.

quaint = nicely odd or strange

Terry thought the ballroom felt quite quaint.

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