Keywords

Term ID Vocabularysort descending Parent Term Description
2979 Actions Legal Pronouncing sentence
523 Actions Work Prosecuting
1411 Actions Physical Protection
5196 Actions Emotional Proud
5598 Actions Verbal Provoking
3073 Actions Moral Punishment
3566 Actions Verbal Punning
1068 Actions Economic Purchase
3095 Actions Moral Purification
938 Actions Physical Pursuit
3130 Actions Physical Pushing away
1051 Actions Hunting Quail hunting
5276 Actions Physical Questing
1036 Actions Verbal Questioning
1241 Actions Work Quitting job
1611 Actions Hunting Rabbit hunting
2463 Actions Physical Race
1941 Actions Movement Racing
1625 Actions Hunting Racoon hunting
3389 Actions Emotional Rage
5214 Actions Military Raid
2740 Actions Violent Raiding
5343 Actions Work Railroad workers
5428 Actions Military Raising troops
5237 Actions Agricultural Raising|shipping cattle
1738 Actions Movement Random
2254 Actions Moral Rationalization
5757 Actions Economic Rationalization

The act of making refining business practices to maximize profit and market share. Flem does this to the Varners' various enterprises by instituting standard pricing and thorough record keeping. JB
4923 Actions Economic Rationing
1510 Actions Physical Reading
2176 Actions Perceptual Reading / Researching
3631 Actions Verbal Reading aloud
4906 Actions Hunting Reading landscape
1811 Actions Mental Realization
3725 Actions Emotional Reassurance
2628 Actions Verbal Rebel yell
4249 Actions Emotional Rebelliousness
4467 Actions Communication Receiving mail
4234 Actions Economic Receiving money
1162 Actions Legal Recess
4245 Actions Bodily Recoiling
4766 Actions Military Reconnaissance
1679 Actions Legal Record keeping
829 Actions Emotional Recovery
2893 Actions Moral Reform
1781 Actions Emotional Refusal
3128 Actions Verbal Refusing
5165 Actions Bodily Regaining consciousness
2305 Actions Emotional Regret
4842 Actions Mental Reinterpretation
4223 Actions Interaction, Private Rejection
4053 Actions Legal Release of prisoner
4005 Actions Emotional Relief
3813 Actions Legal Remarriage
1150 Actions Mental Remembering
1922 Actions Moral Renounce
1192 Actions Economic Renting
4956 Actions Verbal Renunciation
1819 Actions Physical Repair
2788 Actions Emotional Repentance
4010 Actions Verbal Repetition
2917 Actions Mental Repression
1919 Actions Verbal Requesting
4384 Actions Military Rescue
4610 Actions Physical Rescuing
1972 Actions Emotional Resentment
3115 Actions Emotional Resignation
2086 Actions Emotional Respect
4083 Actions Verbal Responding
1844 Actions Work Restauranteer
1566 Actions Emotional Restlessness
1081 Actions Violent Restraining
1970 Actions Physical Restraining
4003 Actions Bodily Retching
4172 Actions Verbal Reticence
3184 Actions Military Retreat
834 Actions Movement Return
2888 Actions Verbal Revealing

Whenever a character accidentally or intentionally reveals an important piece of information. For example, Lucius revealing that Miss Corrie's real name is Everbe to Boon in The Reivers (212).
4548 Actions Verbal Rhetorical question
1230 Actions Movement Riding
1870 Actions Physical Riding
2738 Actions Military Riding
967 Actions Interaction, Private Rivalry
3986 Actions Physical Rolling / wallowing
558 Actions Verbal Rumor
749 Actions Bodily Running
1862 Actions Physical Running
1914 Actions Movement Running
1601 Actions Movement Running away
1392 Actions Emotional Sadness
3693 Actions Physical Saluting
1281 Actions Emotional Satisfaction
4521 Actions Economic Saving money
2761 Actions Physical Sawing
1193 Actions Work Sawmilling
2554 Actions Economic Scamming
1359 Actions Economic Scheming
2282 Actions Moral Scheming

Any action that plots or plans to gain a material or social advantage over someone through immoral means. This is separate from economic scheming, which is often directly tied to a commercial situation. It is also not like deception, because the deception has not happened yet. The specific example is Boon "scheming" to take out the car, but there are other instances of characters ratiocinating or plotting to do so. JB
1289 Actions Play School recess
2478 Actions Emotional Scolding

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