المفردات

· utter meaningless sounds, like a baby, or utter in an incoherent way

The old man is only babbling — don't pay attention

· expel from a community or group

he was banished from his own country

· the state of being banished or ostracized (excluded from society by general consent)

the association should get rid of its elderly members — not by euthanasia, of course, but by Coventry

· characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight

aggressive acts against another country

· unhappy in love; suffering from unrequited love

bereft of hope

· surround so as to force to give up

The Turks besieged Vienna

· an insulating layer of fat under the skin of whales and other large marine mammals; used as a source of oil

she disliked fatness in herself as well as in others

· undertaken in good faith

a bona fide offer

· move or swing back and forth

She waved her gun

· a region marking a boundary

on the verge of tears

· think moodily or anxiously about something

The terrible vision brooded over her all day long

· emotionally hardened

a callous indifference to suffering

· secure or fasten by flattening the ends of nails or bolts

The girder was clinched into the wall

· retreat as if into a cocoon, as from an unfriendly environment

Families cocoon around the T.V. set most evenings

· a process in which a substance reacts with oxygen to give heat and light

combustion grew until revolt was unavoidable

· making or willing to make concessions

loneliness tore through him … whenever he thought of … even the compromising Louis du Tillet

· unconsciously replace fact with fantasy in one's memory

the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze

· a hypothesis that has been formed by speculating or conjecturing (usually with little hard evidence)

speculations about the outcome of the election

· express or state indirectly

solving the problem is predicated on understanding it well

· commit forever; commit irrevocably

consign your baggage

· any disease easily transmitted by contact

a contagion of mirth

· make or work out a plan for; devise

They contrived to murder their boss

· capital as contrasted with the income derived from it

he edited the Hemingway corpus

· to bear a reciprocal or mutual relation

Do these facts correlate?