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All of the Farmer Tice books are fun to read.  The main characters speak with a comical hillbilly dialect, and the vocabulary is both practical and stimulating.  The words below were taken from all four books.

The Vocabulary from Books 1-3

  • hokum

  • trotted

  • fiasco

  • dubbed

  • whittling

  • harvest

  • barbed wire

  • tarp

  • ditch

  • hollered

  • sophisticated

  • international

  • induction

  • grenade

  • distinguished

  • gout

  • colonel

  • latrine

  • plantation

  • overwhelming

  • reception

  • sodbuster

  • jinx

  • exiled

  • demolition

  • spic-and-span

  • tarnation

  • suspicious

  • artificial

  • varmint

  • uppercut

  • hornet

  • draft horses

  • abstained

  • ergophobia

  • elixir

  • sheer

  • swine

  • slew

  • vagrant

  • sow

  • Beauregard

  • scruffy

  • gauge

  • willow

  • entrepreneurs

  • desecrated

  • tirade

  • hobbled

  • truss

  • ravine

  • moonshiner

  • sarsaparilla

  • inhabitants

  • acumen

  • motto

  • horse hockey

  • toiled

  • dolefully

  • outhouse

  • physic {laxative}

  • mandatory

  • hibachi

  • fortresses

  • laxative

  • Slim Jim

  • rile

  • septic tank

  • mocking

  • britches

  • vittles

  • Confucius

  • acres

  • shortcomings

  • dinghy

  • citation

  • corn borers

  • quarantined

  • chum

  • blabbermouth

  • squawked

  • plumb

  • salvation

  • muumuu

  • rehabilitate

  • bygones

  • ripple

  • whopper (lie)

  • yacht

  • beeline

  • Delaware Punch

  • kerosene

  • scheme

  • aldermen

  • knave

  • leisure

  • schlemiels

  • chiseler

  • Triple Crown

  • ethical dilemma

  • overhaul

  • expressly

  • juvenile

  • detention

  • collateral

  • bachelor

  • sludge

  • finance / financial

  • proctologist

  • licorice

  • dandelion

  • candidates

  • grizzled

  • specimen

  • sobriety

  • prosperous

  • obliged

  • immortal

  • pilfer/pilfering

  • shrieked

  • deterred

  • wooden nickel

  • newfangled

  • bushel

  • radiator

  • bloke

  • turbulent

  • feisty

  • misnomer

  • Limburger

  • seized

  • monotonous

  • ignition

  • siphoning

  • mountain oysters

  • guffaw

  • riffraff

  • ay karamba

  • thrusting

  • phlebotomist

  • contaminated

  • don't cotton

  • gypped

  • colonoscopy

  • magnesium cirate

  • shindig

  • ruckus

  • bodacious

  • repent

  • spleen

  • pondered

  • garbanzos

  • grotesquely

  • yokel

  • profusely

  • wrath

  • reverend

  • hymn

  • congregation

  • repent

  • tuckered out

  • clout

  • geezer

  • amphitheater

  • flamboyant

  • ambidextrous

  • establishments

  • overwhelmed

  • obliged

  • teetotaler

  • hooligan

  • tycoon

  • beacon

  • Gibraltar

  • timbers

  • festivities

Book #4 Vocabulary

extraterrestrials

ignorant

conclusive

intergalactic

juvenile delinquent

surreptitiously

vandalism

cock ‘n’ bull

gullible

plumb loco

critters

collateral

duffle bag

mountain oysters

loathsome

Alcatraz

tethered

pondered

suspect

parlor

sow (pig)

flattered

obsequious

hover

gamut

biological

ancestry

condensed

efficient

renown

inaccurate

anthropoid

potentate

bewilderment

bleached-blond

baffled

highly amused

infinitely

vittles

bare essentials

Preparation H

silver metallic

desperation

diminishing

acuity

intimidated

nonchalantly

dilly-dallying

Okie dokie

flabbergasted

desert wasteland

confident

assertive

ambitious

proficient

lucrative

philosopher

Epicurus

Gonosz Vagyok

Mahatma Gandhi

Timothy Leary

Bertrand Russell

Will Durant

Aristotle

Plato

Socrates

Richard Tauber

Austrian tenor

miraculously

mortarboard

monocle

anxiously

strut -ted -ting

fantasizing

hoax

ethnic

speculation

metamorphosis

epicureanism hedonism

perplexing

ecstatic

obliged

sedan chair

commotion

unbeknownst

bustled

reluctantly

Helen of Troy

marriage vows

mused

Liberace

fire-and-brimstone

sermon

reverend

tribulations

helm

prosperity

demoted

inculcated

quadrillion

as the crow flies

intellectual

polysyllabic morphemes

quantum mechanics

devising

IQ

theorem-based

stratagem

dimensional travel

innately

mental telepathy

Morse Code

osmosis

automaton

Honeymooner

Ralph Kramden

photon waves

formidable

secondhand

descend

fortuitous

moonshine

inhabitants

vicinity

diabolical

onomasticon

affirmative

derogatory

lexicon

interrogation

ineptitude

precise

comrade

smelling salts

maestro

cascade

politicians

gaggle

the Little Bighorn

mariachi

Sacagawea

brigade

fiasco

swine

vandals

incomprehensible

fundamental

approach

extrapolate

rejuvenated

shindig

ozone

EBT cards

fart arrestor

incinerator

seize

nutria

philosophical

metaphysics

epistemology

enlighten

millennium

declaration

pavilion

slogans

phenomenal

spectacle

humongous

toga

suppressing

capitalism

bourgeoisie

snookered

reprimand

rogue

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levitating powers

preposterous

headdress

quivered

dangled

demoralizing

brainwaves

plutonium

critical mass

tabloids

acrobatic

Dipsy-Doodle

maniac maneuvers

government facility

repopulate

indignant

unforeseen

agitated

{Gina} Lollobrigida

misnomer

Kentucky Derby

zillion

hourglass

peripheral

external sources

worthwhile

highfalutin

agribusiness

substantial

hypothesis

anticipation

befuddled

perspicacity

transporter chamber

stench

flatulence

malodorous

discharge

digestive gases

marooned

blissful

euphoric

Dutch oven

consciousness

levee

dandruff

no recollection

exclaimed

muttered

rascal

recuperated

AWOL

chamber pot

bushels

abundant

alfalfa

flourished

Ponderosa

prosperous

transformation

drones

grammar

arguably

Martin Luther King

luxurious

financier

cordially

threshold

Industrial Revolution

corporate tyranny

exploitation

masses

disbarred

restitution

stereotypical

intoned

systematic racism

Critical Race Theory

bewildering

intellectualism

totem pole

crusade

heap

oracle

indigent

ad hoc

plum tuckered out

spiritual leader

prominent

culmination

petered out

unintentionally

Götterdammerung

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