The PigmanVocabulary

-Chapters 1 & 2-

Directions• For each vocab word, look at the

picture and example sentences.• Make a guess with your partner

about the definition.• When shown the correct

definition, put it in your vocabulary notes.

Avocation• Playing soccer

is my favorite avocation, but I also like to cook.

Avocation• Noun• A hobby

Excruciating• My broken arm

was excruciating until they gave me pain medicine.

Excruciating• Adjective• Intensely painful

Raunchy• The joke he

told me was too raunchy to tell my mom.

CENSORED

Rauncy• Adjective• Dirty or obscene; rude

Subliminal• Because of her subliminal desire to own a dog, she began walking by the pet store on the way home.

Subliminal• Adjective• Existing in

the unconscious or subconscious

Repress• The memory

was too painful, so she had to repress it.

???

Repress• Verb• To purposefully forget

Assert• He continues to assert that his girlfriend goes to another school even though we know he doesn’t have one.

Assert• Verb• To state positively, claim

Infantile• He was

embarrassed by his friend’s infantile behavior at the school dance.

Infantile• Adjective• Childish, immature

Compulsive• I had the compulsive urge to pick the lint off her shirt.

Compulsive• Adjective• Not able to be stopped;

irresistible

Impressionable• Her mom told

her not to cuss in front of her impressionable younger brother.

Impressionable• Adjective• Easily influenced

Mortified• I was mortified

when my brother read my diary out loud to his friends.

Mortified• Adject• Extremely embarrassed