Vocabulary words for Barthelme's "The School"

Euphemism for death

            “kicked off”

            “belly-up”

Explicable - explainable, able to be explained

Conscientious - with care and awareness

Sabotage - to purposefully destroy or disrupt

Direct/directly - immediate

Extraordinary - above the ordinary, or wonderufl

Mortality - the ability to die

Excavate/excavating

Fatal/fatally - relating to death 

Grapple/grappled - struggle

Intrude/intruder - invade

Fundamental - necessary 

Datum - data point

Taken-for-granted - unappreciated

Mundane/mundanity - dull, ordinary

Transcend/transcended - to rise above