1.ostensibly: from appearances alone
Novel Sentence: “And so we have One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - ostensibly one day in the life of a gulag prisoner” (Solzhenitsyn 174).
Stand-alone: Ostensibly Hanna is his daughter, but she is not.
2.barren: completely wanting or lacking
Novel Sentence: “The steppe was barren and windswept, with a dry wind in the summer and a freezing one in winter“ (Solzhenitsyn 71).
Stand-alone: The slash-and- burn farming made barren land.
3.heave:move or cause to move in a specified way or direction
Novel Sentence:“The prisoners heaved forward with a buzz of excitement” (Solzhenitsyn 119).
Stand-alone: His chest was still heaving from the sprint.
4.contradictory:unable to be both true at the same time
Novel Sentence:"His hero was not a rebel against the camp regime, someone who considered that regime to be abnormal and contradictory to common sense." --> no in-text citation given
Stand-alone: It is apparently contradictory to what I said.
5.craven:lacking even the rudiments of courage; abjectly fearful
Novel Sentence: “In previous situations like this, the editions-in-chief of journals either given in cravenly or complained about censorship to the Central Committee” (Solzhenitsyn viii).
Stand-alone: To ride the white flag is a vraven proposal.
6.amalgamate:to bring or combine together or with something else
Novel Sentence: “It’d been amalgamated with neighboring farms - that’d happened before, too, but afterward they’d reduced it to its former condition” (Solzhenitsyn 39).
Stand-alone: In EU, a constant flow of immigrants is being amalgamated.
7.neglect:leave undone or leave out
Novel Sentence:“Without neglecting a single fish scale or particle of flesh on the brittle skeleton, Shukov went on chomping his teeth and sucking the bones, spitting the remains on the table” (Solzhenitsyn 17).
Stand-alone: I neglect one's studies.
8.nip:sever or remove by pinching
Novel Sentence:”The frost was trying to nip his ears…” (Solzhenitsyn 11).
Stand-alone: The dog nipped at my leg.
9.ingenuous:lacking in sophistication or worldliness
Novel Sentence:“He smiled ingenuously, revealing the gaps in his teeth, the result of a touch of scurvy at Ust-Izhma in 1943” (Solzhenitsyn 13).
Stand-alone: She is an only person who is ingenuous.
10.doff:remove
Novel Sentence:“'Romeo, doff thy name; And for that name, which is no part of thee, Take all myself'" (Shakespeare Act 2, Scene 2 ).
Stand-alone: He doff his clothes and divided into the river.
11.hoarse:deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness
Novel Sentence:“It started hoarsely, as though clearing its throat” (Solzhenitsyn 68).
Stand-alone: He screamed himself hoarse after he went to the ghost house.
12.frisk:search by running the hands rapidly over the clothing
Novel Sentence:“Sometimes the guards frisked you for letters that might have been sent through civilians” (Solzhenitsyn 33).
Stand-alone: He saw a squirrel frisking among the trees and a rabbit hopping across the road.
13.infringe:advance beyond the usual limit
Novel Sentence:“If you suffer, it must not be the murder, theft, or sorcery, nor for infringing the rights of others” (Solzhenitsyn 25).
Stand-alone: He described the bill as a violation of an infringement on personal rights.
14.expostulate:reason with for the purpose of dissuasion
Novel Sentence:“‘I’ve already counted fourteen,’ the cook expostulated. ‘So you did, but didn’t pass them out' " (Solzhenitsyn 74).
Stand-alone: He expostulated his daughter not to be in a rush to marry.
15.trudge:walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud
Novel Sentence:“Somewhere out on the tundra, an Ivan Denisovich was trudging and dying” (Solzhenitsyn 176).
Stand-alone: He trudged up the mountain, all the time wishing he could be back home sleeping on his bed.
16.dispensary:clinic where medicine and medical supplies are distributed
Novel Sentence:“There’s never any harm in trying, so why not have a go at thedispensary and get a few days off if you can?” (Solzhenitsyn 6).
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17.oust:remove from a position or office
Novel Sentence:“Shukhov’s job now was to wedge himself in behind a table, oust two loafers, politely ask another prisoner to move...” (Solzhenitsyn 72).
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18.salvation:a means of preserving from harm or unpleasantness
Novel Sentence:”Let your work warm you up, that was your only salvation” (Solzhenitsyn 6).
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19.sporadically:in an irregular or unpredictable manner
Novel Sentence:“Then he became extremely inconsistent, sometimes not only supporting the cover-up of Stalin’s crimes, but sporadically whitewashing the man he had called a murderer” (Solzhenitsyn x).
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20.begrudge:be envious of
Novel Sentence:“...who wouldn't begrudge the loss of that sweet day?” (Solzhenitsyn 129).
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