Thursday, February 11, 2016

Of Mice and Men Vocabulary

Words: Mollify and Graybacks


Quotes: 

Mollify: "Damn right he don't," Said George, slightly mollified, "not if he wants to stay workin' long." But he was reassured by the swamper's defense."


Graybacks: "Then how come he got graybacks?" George was working up a slow anger. Lennie put his bundle on the neighboring bunk and sat down. He watched George open his mouth."


Self definitions: 

Mollify: To calm down someoene's anger, or anxiety


Graybacks: Graybacks was a term used to describe bedbugs, bugs that tends to suck blood from someone while they're asleep.


Sentences: 

Mollify: If I didn't mollify the two friends, they would have still been bickering.


Graybacks: Be careful when going to sleep tonight, heard Graybacks been biting people in their sleep recently.

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