Catch-22

by Joseph Heller

ire

For a few precarious seconds, the chaplain tingled with a weird, occult sensation of having experienced the identical situation before in some prior time or existence. He endeavored to trap and nourish the impression in order to predict, and perhaps even control, what incident would occur next, but the afflatus melted away unproductively, as he had known beforehand it would. Déjà vu.

impertinently

obsequious

commiseration.

incensed.

malaise.

peremptory

Colonel Cathcart was not thinking anything at all about the chaplain, but was tangled up in a brand-new, menacing problem of his own: Yossarian! Yossarian! The mere sound of that execrable, ugly name made his blood run cold and his breath come in labored gasps.

cascading

perspire

pulsated

temerity

finicky

figment

bickered

delectable

intransigent

monolithic

obsequiously.

sprucely,

baleful

asinine

as he listened to Major Danby describe in a monotonous, didactic male drone the heavy concentrations of flak awaiting them at Avignon,

He throbbed and ached with sorrow, fear and desire as he stared at her; she was so beautiful.

He licked his parched, thirsting lips with a sticky tongue and moaned in misery again, loudly enough this time to attract the startled, searching glances of the men sitting around him on the rows of crude wooden benches in their chocolate-colored coveralls and stitched white parachute harnesses.

congestion

trepidation

The room was boiling irrepressibly into bedlam.

tersely,

blustery

hangdog

spurted to his feet

stampe...

buck teeth

pup tent.

adamantly,

concupiscent

panatella

denudate

sibilance

interminable

ungainly

plodding

stunted

smutty mind

andirons

taciturn.

vociferously

homilies,