Vocabulary for

The Diary of a Young Girl: Anne Frank

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“The definitive edition

Definitive Adj/define
of . . .”

“. . . when I proceeded
to talk my way
through the next
Incorrigible class, he assigned me
a second essay . . .
‘An Incorrigible
Chatterbox’” (11).
“It’s sweltering.
Everyone is huffing
and puffing, and in
this heat I have to
Sweltering walk everywhere”
(12).

“ The door to the right

of the landing leads to
Annex the ‘Secret annex’ at
the back of the
house” (23).
“A lamp has been
mounted above my
Divan divan bed sso tht in
the future, . . .” (36).
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“The male members of

the Van Daan
contingent . . .” (37).
Contingent

“I’m continually being

scolded for my
Incessant incessant chatter
when I’m upstairs”
(37).

“Somehow we landed
on the subject of
Diffidence
Pim’s extreme
diffidence” (45).

“As you know, I’m

quite the jealous
Abide type, and I can’t
abide her behavior”
(49).

“Not to that paragon

Paragon
of virtue”(50)!
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“Escape is almost
impossible; many
people look Jewish,
Branded
and they’re branded
by their shorn heads”
(54).
“Escape is almost
impossible; many
people look Jewish,
Shorn
and they’re branded
by their shorn heads”
(54).

“But that’s not the

Lamentations end of my
lamentations” (55).

“Tomorrow we’re
going to light the
Draws stove for the first time
. . . Let’s hope the
thing draws” (59)!

“And what would be

the point of turning
Melancholy the Secret Annex into
the Melancholy Annex
“(70)?
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“ . . . it pales in
comparison to the
Pales
suffering I’ve just told
you about” (71).

“In these times of

scarcity, tossing away
Taboo
a piece of paper is
clearly taboo!” (72).

“It gave me such a

funny feeling, as if I’d
denounced them to
Denounced
the authorities and
was now spying on
their misfortune” (77).

“”I couldn’t bear their

sympathy or their
Derision
good-humored
derision” (81).

“”Mrs. Van D. claims

she’s fatalistic. But
Fatalistic who’s the most afraid
when the guns go
off?” (84).
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“Her resolute answer

to his grumbling was,
Resolute
‘After all, Anne is not
an ex-soldier!’” (87)
“May I introduce:
Mama Frank, the
children’s advocate! .
Advocate . . you name it, and
mother defends the
younger generation”
(88).
“Dussel is terribly lax
when it comes to
Lax
obeying the rules of
the house” (90).

“What’s a clandestine
radio when there are
Clandestine already clandestine
Jews and clandestine
money?” (105)

“I was incensed and

wasn’t about to let
Incensed
myself be put off like
that” (108).
“Anyone who’s so
petty and pedantic at
the age of fifty-four
Pedantic
was born that way
and is never going to
change” (110).
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“Yesterday was a very

tumultuous day, and
Tumultuous
we’re still all wound
up” (113).
“I mentioned
something to that
effect while we were
Veritable doing the dishes and
Mr. Dussel launched
into a veritable tirade”
(116).

“Mrs. Van d and

Dussel continued
Harangue
their harangue . . . “
(116).

“Here is some of the

best news of the war
Capitulated
so far: Italy has
capitulated” (133)!

“I have my own own

ideas, plans and
Articulate ideals, but am unable
to articulate them
yet” (142).

“At the moment the

Tempestuous tempestuous quarrels
have subsided” (144).
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“After long
deliberation, I finally
Deliberation came up with a idea,
something funny”
(151).

“The war is at an
Impasse impasse, spirits are
low” (153).

“ – those whom I, with

my mercurial
Mercurial termperament, had
hurt or offended – “
(158)
“Then I’d chastise
myself for playing the
Chastise victim, when really,
I’d always been so
fortunate” (168).
“Although I’m
extremently diligent
when it comes to my
schoolwork . . . I still
Diligent spend many of my
Sundays sorting out
and looking over my
movie-star collection,
. . . : (176).
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“Going underground
has become as
routine as the
proverbial pipe and
Proverbial
slippers that used to
await the man of the
house after a long day
at work” (178).
“And no one,
especially not the
idiotic sages around
Sages
here is capable of
understanding us . . ”
(202)
“I keep hoping to
discover that he’s
dying to see me , and
Raptures
I’m in raptures when I
notice his bashful
attempts” (208).
“I would never have
refused anyone who
wanted to peek at my
answers, I was
Magnanimous
magnanimous with
my candy, and I
wasn’t stuck up”
(208).
“Looking back, I
realize that this
Irrevocably period of my life has,
irrevocably come to a
close” (209-210).
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“I have the hardest

time trying to
maintain a normal
Façade
façade when I’m
feeling so wretched
and sad” (214).
“But that’s just it:
this tedious existence
Tedious is starting to make us
all disagreeable”
(217).
“He regaled his
grateful audience
Regaled
with talk of – what
else? – food” (219).
“Isn’t there some old
saying about love
Akin
being akin to pity?”
(221)
“All those cute
nicknames seem so
Affected affected, and Father’s
fondness for . . .”
(222).