A high school recommended book Tuesdays with Morrie, written by Mitch Albom, gives the student the opportunity to learn vocabulary in context. We have selected 59 words to encourage study and provide helpful clues in learning.

(Teachers: If you have a vocabulary list for this book (or for others) that you would share with us, email Jan and Carey Cook. We will post it and give you attribution, if you wish! Thanks for helping us!!!)

Tuesdays with Morrie written by Mitch Albom in order of appearance:

• Words from the first 65 pages:
  biopsy (p.7), demise (p. 10), insatiable (p.16), aphorisms (p.18), humility (p.22), deferments (p.30), lamented (p.42), alienation (p.46), atrophied (p.48),cynical (p.50), rational (p.52), insidious (p.57), intrusive (p.62),clamoring (p.62), nostalgia (p.63),imminent (p.64), ambivalence (p.64), egotistical (p.64)
• Words from pages 66 through 120:
  opiate (67), communal (74), antidote (77),exploited (78), indecipherable (80), solidarity (80), agnostic (81),transcend (82), deficient (84),teeming (90), lavaliere (90), perish (91),condemned (96), laurels (100),lilting (100), exertion (103),stout (104), gazelle (108), radical (111), levitate (112), inclination (115), revel (116), oblivion (117),
• Words from pages 121 to the book's end:
  mogul(123), inconsequential (127), stagnated (130), pilgrimage (130), accosted (139), solidifying (152), alabaster (152), inherent (154), innately (155), momentous (158), stoic (160), listing (162), serenity (132), patriarch (165), whimsical (165), facade (181), buoyant (182), contorting (185)

• Thank you to Sharon Green, a professor at Niagara University near Niagara Falls, New York for being our teacher contributor for Tuesdays with Morrie written by Mitch Albom.