Dear Bully: Seventy Authors Tell Their Stories Glossary

by Ellen Hopkins

Dear Bully: Seventy Authors Tell Their Stories Glossary

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Tolerate

Allow, Permit, Bear

Hurl

Throw, Toss, Fling

Affiliation

Incorporation, Integration, Amalgamation

Intervention

Involvement, Intercession, Interposition

Aftermath

Consequences, Aftereffects, Consequences

Homicide

Human killing human(s)

Sobering

Relaxing, Softening, Cooling

Taunted

Insulted, Tormented, Ridiculed

Cohort

Companion, Comrade, Accomplice

Intimidated

Frightened, Terrified, Subdued

Condone

Overlook, Forget, Disregard

Cower

Cringe, Shrink, Crouch

Humiliated

Embarrassed, Mortified, Ashamed

Irretrievably

Irreversibly, Irremediably, Irrevocably

Shattered

Devastated, Dumbfounded, Traumatized

Predisposition

Proneness, Susceptibility, Inclination, Tendency

Callousness

Indifference, Careless, Insensitivity

Terse

Curt, Brusque, Abrupt

Hideous

Ugly, Gruesome, Grotesque

Muffled

Swathed, Swaddled, Enfolded, Enveloped

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