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211 vocabulary words for A Prayer for Owen Meany are listed in order of appearance, as indicated:
Introduction:
defunct, inception, catalyst, baffling, affluent, ostensibly, speculation, sundry, flamboyant, ruthless, provocative, sally, ploy, elicit, benighted, provincialism, benign, metropolis, furtive, implacable, tenacity, grist, nebulous, turbulent, vacillating, astute, vaunted, chastened, metamorphosis
The Foul Ball
zealot, nondenominational, translucent, ominously, levitating, ecclesiastical, heterodox, adherents, culvert, quarry, litanies, pious
The Armadillo
feline, brooch, palaver, mutant, trysts, assignation, straddle, harrowing, burly, prone, devise, aristocracy, taunting, rapaciousness, prevailing, compelled, articulate, sprawled, fastidious, sepulchral, self-immolation, pagoda
The Angel
frugal, lackluster, indignant, hullabaloo, banshee, preposterous, proclivity, tyrannical, coy, postulate, fussbudget, fervor, zeal, lucid, seraphim, errant, withered, propitious, mirth, crone, finagle, misdemeanor, lamentation, unflappable, countenance, balked, manifold, wrath
The Little Lord Jesus
penitentiary, galaxy, brigade, fret, portal, siblings, resolute, trifle, voluptuousness, willy-nilly, hapless, electrocute, profound, appellation, tactile, swaddle, regal, reverential, frazzle, claustrophobia, buttress, espouse, contemptuous, scoff, quintessential, creche, trestle, abutment, hoard, senility, perverse, chafing, albeit, facetiousness
The Ghost of The Future
phlegm, genuflect, havoc, triptych, lascivious, rapt, ardor, defame, substantive, sacrilegious, vestibule, relinquish, prerequisite, terra ferma, marginal, suffice, cantankerous, sullen, lugubrious, benevolence, arduously, tedious, myriad, premonition
The Voice
banality, vulnerable, repels, obdurate, multifarious, din, parochial, supplication, vicariously, elocution, compliant, phosphorescence, pulverized, gaunt, mordant, scathing, curmudgeon, commiserate, entanglements, prurient, ostentatious, unsullied, slur, allotment, pestilential, dossier, magnitude, evangelical, portentous, oligarchy
The Dream
degrading, mannequin, assertion, watershed, slovenliness, divert, atomizer, prestigious, fidget, incitement, reprehensible, numbskull, interminable, podium, prolific, progeny, precarious, billfold, macadam, desecration, vestry, virulent
The Finger
purgatory, aspiration, shrill, eccentricities, adamant, litanies, depict, deplorable, moor, woefully, propriety, assimilate, induce, sabotage, bestow, insurgent, populace, slovenly, orifice, notorious, wallow, cunning, incipiently, delude, precognitive, infuriatingly, transgression, peerless, conjecture, harangue, incoherently, grovel, scrupulously, beseech, pockmarked, cumbersome, tarmac, mortician, cringe, embossed, specter, snidely, forlornly, dismantle, epidemic, illusion
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