One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Vocabulary

Copy the following definitions in the MEANS box on your vocab sheet:

·       Acute:  sharp, focused

·       Chronic: keeps happening

·       Existentialism: belief that you are in control of your own destiny

·       Combine: group of people that work together OR a factory

·       Matriarchy: society controlled by women

·       Emasculate: take away a man’s “manhood”

·       Sadistic: enjoy inflicting pain on others

·       Punitive: meant as a punishment

·       Psychotic: crazy, detached from reality

·       Schizophrenia: mental illness where you have a false perception of reality