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THE PEARLChapters4-6
Vocabulary Flash cards for the book"The pearl". Chapters 4-6
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| contemptuous | scorn or disdain |
| crafty | clever |
| entranced | delighted; enchantment |
| extravagant | rich; fancy |
| lethargy | tired; weak |
| perplexed | confused |
| conceived | have the idea for; think of |
| edifice | building or structure |
| exhilaration | glad; joyful |
| skimmed | travel on the surface; to take from the surface |
| stifling | smothering; suffocating; to take away breath or restrict |
| apprehensively | anxiously; fearful |
| beckoned | signal |
| intercession | intervention; protection |
| petulant | impatient; sulky |
| remote | far away or apart |
| rupture | break; burst |
| sentinel | soldier; guard |
| threshed | flail |
| wrenched | twisted; yanked |