Of Mice and Men - Chapter 1 Vocabulary Definitions

Bindle

• Express or represent by extravagant and exaggerated mime

• To move in a slow, heavy, awkward way

• A bundle, usually of bedding and other possessions,

  carried by a homeless person/migrant worker

Despair

• The complete loss or absence of hope

• To move in a slow, heavy, awkward way

• A set of lenses, mirrors or prisms on a tube allowing the viewer to see objected reflected on the other end

Lumbered

• To whine or complain

• To rejoice over success

• To move in a slow, heavy, awkward way

Morose

• A bundle, usually of bedding and other possessions,

  carried by a hobo (homeless person)

• Express or represent by extravagant and exaggerated mime

• Ill-tempered or gloomy mannered

Pantomime

• To speak to someone or about something in a scornfully derisive or mocking way

• Express or represent by extravagant and exaggerated mime

• To move in a slow, heavy, awkward way

Periscope

• An optical instrument for viewing objects that are above the level of direct sight or in an otherwise obstructed field of vision

• Ill-tempered or gloomy mannered

• The complete loss or absence of hope

Recumbent

• To rejoice over success

• To whine or complain

• To be comfortably leaning or lying down

Scoff

• Ill-tempered or gloomy mannered

• To speak to someone or about something in a scornfully derisive or mocking way

• The complete loss or absence of hope

Triumphant

• To whine or complain

• To move in a slow, heavy, awkward way

• To rejoice over success

Yammer

• To whine or complain

• Express or represent by extravagant and exaggerated mime

• To move in a slow, heavy, awkward way