Vocabulary

1. Wistful- adjective

• “Some carried themselves with a sort of wistful resignation, others with pride or stiff soldierly discipline or good humor or macho zeal.” (p. 20)
• Antonym is pride, we were able to infer it by the transitional word “others”.  
• The soldiers were wistful after long hours of battle.

2. Resignation- noun

• “Some carried themselves with a sort of wistful resignation, others with pride or stiff soldierly discipline or good humor or macho zeal.” (p. 20)

• Logic because the first part of the word is to resign.
• Jessica’s resignation was due to her PTSD.

3. Encyst- verb

• “…they had their lines mostly memorized, irony mixed with tragedy, and because they called it by other names, as if to encyst and destroy the reality of death itself.”
• Synonym because they compare it to the word “destroy”
• The tumor became encysted into his brain.