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A vocabulary word list for The War of the Worlds is arranged in order of appearance:
The War of the Worlds: Book I --- The Coming of the Martians
pp.11-22 The Eve of the War-The Falling Star
transient, complacency, infusorians, disillusionment, equatorial, attenuated, eloquent, alien, incessant, apostles, unanimity, fluctuating, incandescent, velocity, scrutiny, transverse, ascribe
pp. 23-52 On Horsell Common-The Fighting Begins
jostling, concussion, luminous, convulsively, fungoid, tumultuous, aperture, vantage, duputation, impinged, stupefied, parabolic, combustible, incontinently, novelty, trivial, hummack, blundering, gables, incongruity, smoldering, pinnacle
pp. 53-80 In the Storm-What I Saw of the Destruction of Weybridge and Shepperton
fusillade, contagion, harassed, reverberation, disgorged, lethargy, palings, furtively, scintillated, smote, ejaculatory, ransack, treble, formidable, simultaneously, heeding, din
pp. 81-109 How I fell in with the Curate-What had Happened in Surrey
omnibus, sabbatical, antagonist, sentinel, heliographs, officiate, imminent, prevail, disseminating, repulsed, exhort, conspicuous, parapet, ineffectual, nettles, kopjes, cleft, insoluble, haphazard, spasmodic, palpable
pp. 110-138 The Exodus from London- The Thunder Child
trudge, pluckily, paroxysm, portmanteau, staccato, dubiously, annihilate, throng, stipple, incessant, ramification, clamber, deter, exorbitant, reverted, bulwark, gaunt, obliquely
The War of the Worlds: Book II --- The Earth Under the Martians
pp.139-164 Underfoot- The Days of Imprisonment
remonstrance, contort, aghast, fortnight, aperture, pulverized, transient, carnivorous, recuperate, supercede, defunct, facetious, gesticulations, decorum, pivot, scullery, impulsively, contrivance, acute
pp. 165-194 The Death of the Curate-The Man on Putney Hilltussle
ventured, pantry, phantasm, sumptuous, succumb, lurid, exuberance, fecundity, fronds, cankering, vestige, disconsolate, prostrate, culvert, susceptible, reconnoiter, propagation
pp. 195-216 Dead London-The Epilogue
magnum, imperceptibly, putrefaction, tortuous, apprehension, morbidity, shilling, physiology, galvanized
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