Vocabulary

1. Acquiescence:  (noun) - The act or condition of giving tacit assent; agreement or consent by silence or without object.

"I'd be screaming at them telling them how much i detested their blind, thoughtless, automatic, acquiescence to it all, their simple minded patriotism..." (page 45)

Speaking amongst eachother they made the decision to go to the park, they cought on to my acquiescence body language by the way i just went along with it.

Synonym: acceptance, agreement

2. Platitude:  (noun) - a flat, dull, or trite, remark, especially one uttered as if it were fresh or profound.

"...their prideful ignorance, their love-it-or-leave-it platitudes, how they were sending me off to a war they didnt understand." (page 45)

Some of my friends have sort of mild platitude towards life in general.

I used the synonym

3. Gentry: (noun) - persons of high birth or social standing; aristocracy

"...the chatty housewives, the PTA and the Lions Club and the Veterans of foreign wars and the fine upstanding gentry out at the country club." (page 45)

The gentry that came out of the gated comunity were snobby and thought low of others.

I used the synonym upper class because i've heard it being used in conversation about people of the middle class.