The Things They Carried Vocabulary

• Abstract: theoretical or difficult to understand
• Aesthetic: having to do with beauty
• Ambiguous: several possible meanings or interpretations
• Censure: being told you did something wrong or being punished for doing something wrong
• Condolence: sympathy (usually for death)
• Eccentric: differing from the norm, abnormal
• Elusive: difficult to see or understand or catch
• Indifferent: not having an opinion
• Morale: overall attitude
• Reticent: reluctant, especially to speak
• Sequential: following a specific order
• Skeptical: unsure, unbelieving, distrustful
• Solemn: serious
• Tangible: able to be touched
• Valor: honor, courage
• Zeal: enthusiasm