Vocabulary list "Dead Poets Society" – the film

(based on ideas by Lucille Grindhammer)

Section 1 (scenes 1 - 9):

1. Banners up

2. pillars

3. to graduate

4. Ivy League

5. fervent dedication

6. preparatory school

7. roommates

8. vaporizer

9. study group

10. to look like a stiff

11. footlicking

12. National Merit Scholar

13. extra-curricular activities

14. annual

15. to fester

16. weakling

Section 3 (scenes 23 - 36):

1. to cut out the racket

2. to reconvene

3. initiate

4. intermittent

5. jigsaw puzzle

6. demented madman

7. exhausted

8. twerp

9. endeavour

10. to woo

11. root canal work

12. dagger

13. quiet desperation

14. morose

15. lemming

Section 5 (scenes 53 - 59):

1. pipes

2. to join in

3. sonorous

4. clarinet

5. saxophone

6. calm

7. to take a stroll

8. to stride

9. pace

10. ridicule

11. conformity

12. herd

13. to swim against the stream

14. desk set

15. aerodynamic

Section 7 (scenes 79 - 81):

1. screwed

2. to have the gift

3. speechless

4. to defy

5. to ruin

6. Military School

7. lifetime

8. prison term

Section 2 (scenes 10 - 22):

1. spooky

2. to hustle up

3. engaged

4. jerk.

5. Ph. D.

6. artfully

7. to render

8. excrement

9. bandstand

10. to rip out

11. to savour

12. to achieve

13. to sidle up

14. to sustain life

15. to contribute

16. misguided

17. free thinker

18. cynic

19. realist

20. Senior Annual

21. favourably

22. to swoon

23. to suck marrow out of life

Section 4 (scenes 37 - 52):

1. open tryouts

2. summer stock audition

3. to disobey

4. to bud out

5. immature

6. devotees

7. to excel

8. to exalt

9. stuff of revelation

10. to put s.o. out of his misery

11. gibberish

Section 6 (scenes 60 - 78):

1. profane

2. guilty

3. unauthorized

4. expulsion

5. to smirk

6. unorthodox

7. impressionable

8. to reprimand

9. lame stunt

10. absurd

11. dutiful

12. indentured servant

13. trapped

14. to apologize

15. virility

16. to sneak away

17. infuriating

Section 8 (scenes 82 - 98):

1. request of

2. enquiry

3. to fink

4. scapegoat

5. honor code

6. to expel

7. to rat on sb to sb

8. cosy

9. to fry

10. expulsion papers

11. to occur

12. inspiration

13. recklessness

14. obsession

15. blatant

16. abuse

17. document