Lauren Block- vocabulary

1. Unscrupulous
-Conscienceless, unprincipled
-Devoid of scruples; oblivious to or contemptuous of what is right or honorable.

Sentence from book: "I'd double-dated with that bastard a couple of times, and I know what I'm talking about. He was unscrupulous. He really was.

2. Morgue
- A place in which bodies are kept esp. the bodies of victims o violence or accidents, pending identification or burial.
- A reference file of old clippings, mats, books, etc., in a newspaper office.
- The room containing such a reference file.
- Any place, as a room or a file, where records, information, or objects are kept for unexpected but possible future use.
- Such records, information, or objects.

Sentence from book: "Where the hell is everybody? It's like a goddamn morgue around here."

3. Pacifist
- A person who believes in pacifism or is opposed to war or to violence of any kind.
- A person who's personal belief in pacifism causes him or her to refuse being drafted into military service.
- Belief that disputes between nations should and can be settled peacefully.
- Opposition to war or violence as a means of resolving disputes.
- Such opposition demonstrated by refusal to participate in military action.

Sentence from book: "I'm not too tough. I'm a pacifist, if you want to know the truth."

4. Convent
- A community of persons devoted to religious life under a superior.
- A society of association of Monks, friars, or nuns; now usually used as a society of nuns.
- the buildings or building occupied by such a society; a monastery or nunnery.
- Obsolete, assembly; meeting.

Sentence from book: "While I was eating my eggs , these two nuns with suitcases and all- I guessed they were moving to another convent or something and were waiting for a train- came in and sat down next to me at the counter."