Vocabulary list: Baccano! 1935 - Volume C (The Grateful Bet)

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to look askance (at); to look contemptuously; to look down on; (arch.) to cast an amorous glance at
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Villars
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Davy Crockett
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picaresque novel
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Two-up
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Donald Brown (anthropologist)
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raccoon butterflyfish (Chaetodon lunula); moon butterflyfish
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Sicilian Mafia
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Nibiru (hypothesized planet)
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Brinvilliers
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to bribe
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Little Italy
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Upham
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Lucky Luciano
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mugging; mugger
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blackmail; extortion; racketeering; blackmailer; extortionist
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to entangle; to entwine; to pick a quarrel; to find fault; to be involved with; to be influenced by
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Empire State Building
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Sprott
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a cut above the rest; superior; one field; one matter; suitably; reasonably
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anecdote; tidbit; gossip; little-known story
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arrow wheel (decorative windmill on the pole on which carp streamers are raised)
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egg-shaped
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croquet; croquette
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Al Capone
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Czeslaw
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to leave one's post; to walk out on one's job
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to cheat each other
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Hudson River
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uncle (older than one's parent)
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Walter Benjamin
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Walken
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Carlotta
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gangster
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state legislature; state or provincial parliament
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Bildt
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Labro
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Gustavo
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Manfred
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Nader
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carpenter
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regional economy; local economy
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decay; ruination
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hydroplane; seaplane
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Donnie
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how many; how much
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Alamo
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House of cards
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Camorra
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Chucky
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