Improbable
Source sentence: Vietnam was full of strange stories, some improbable, some well beyond that, but the stories that will last forever are those that swirl back and forth across the border between trivia and bedlam, the mad and the mundane. (pg. 89) Tim o' Brien
Context clues:
Synonyms: fascinating, unbelievable
Antonyms: ridiculous, uneventful
Definition: not probable; unlikely to be true or to happen
Original sentence: Most people thought that having an african american as president was improbable.
Mortared
Source sentence: The place was never mortared, never taken under fire, and the war seemed to be somewhere far away. (pg. 92) Tim o' Brien
Context clues:
Never taken under fire this might mean that the area was never really bothered.
Definition: A vessel in which substances are crushed or ground with a pestle.
Original sentence: I wonder what life would be like if New York was never mortared by terrorists.
Excrement
Source sentence: Thick and numbing, like an animals den, a mix of blood and scorched hair and excrement and the sweet-sour odor of moldering flesh- the stink of the kill. (pg. 110) Tim o'Brien
Context clues:
prefix "ex" means from, out of, former
suffix "ment" means state, condition, or quality
Definition: waste matter discharged from the body, esp. feces.
Original sentence: The excrement from the toddler smelled worse than road kill.
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