Flowers for Algernon Vocab

• Implication: something that is hinted at but not stated directly
• Ornate: highly decorated, flashy
• Platonic: having to do with the spiritual, not the physical
• Docile: ready to accept control or direction
• Pathology: outside of the normal state, disease
• Prognosis: prediction of a disease's outcome
• Admonish: criticize or warm gently but firmly
• Erratic: lacking consistency, unpredictable
• Juxtaposition: placed side by side for comparison
• Futile: incapable of producing a meaningful result, pointless
• Naivete: lacking experience, wisdom, or judgement
• Deteriorate: go down in quality
• Cynical: distrustful of others
• Inevitable: impossible to avoid/prevent
• Labyrinth: maze
• Fugue: period of extreme forgetfulness