List 5 - Joy Luck Club

• acquiesce


  To accept, comply, or submit tacitly or passively (often used with in or to)
• auspicious


  Showing or suggesting that future success is likely; promising; fortunate
• chagrin


  Distress of mind caused by humiliation, disappointment, or failure. To vex or unsettle by disappointing or humiliating
• disparage


  To belittle the importance or value of (someone or something). To lower (someone or something) in rank or reputation; to degrade
• docile


  Easily taught; easily led or managed
• guileless


  Innocent, naive
• insolent


  Insultingly contemptuous in speech or conduct. Exhibiting boldness or effrontery; impudent
• inviolable

  Secure from violation or profanation; secure from an assault or trespass
• lament


  To mourn aloud; wail. To express sorrow, mourning, or regret, often demonstrativelyA crying out in grief; complaint (n)
• listless


  Characterized by a lack of interest, energy, or spirit
• mundane


  Relating to or characteristic of the world. Characterized by the practical or ordinary. Commonplace
• precipitous


  Very steep, perpendicular, or overhanging in rise or fall
• acrid


  Sharp and harsh or unpleasantly pungent in taste or odor; irritating. Deeply or violently bitter
• elude


  To avoid skillfully, to evade; to escape the perception, understanding, or grasp of. To defy
• innuendo


  A hint or insinuation; an oblique reference, slyly or subtly derogatory remark
• irrevocable


  Not possible to revoke, unalterable
• nondescript


  Belonging or appearing to belong to no particular class or kind; not easily described. Lacking distinctive or interesting qualities, dull
• pungent


  Having an intense flavor or odor; causing a sharp or irritating sensation, acrid
• verbatim


  In the exact words; word-for-word
• visceral


  Felt in or as if in the internal organs of the body; deep. Instinctive, not intellectual. Dealingwith crude or elemental emotions. Relating to or located on the viscera (internal organs)