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Hattie Vocab
Hattie Quiz Lit.
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Doughboy | An American infantry man. |
| Adept | Very skilled. |
| Amble | Slow easy walk or gentle pace. |
| Bayonet | A dagger like steel weapon that is attached to the muzzle of a gun. |
| Burgeoning | To grow or develope quickly. |
| Comeuppance | Deserved reward or just deserves usually unpleasant. |
| Commiserate | To feel or express sympathy for. |
| Cross | Angry and annoyed: ill humored snappish. |
| Dour | Sullen, gloomy. |
| Gumption | Courage, spunk; guts; common sense; shrewdness. |
| Haphazard | Characterized by lack of order or planning by irregularly; or randomness. |
| Homestead | a dwelling with its land and buildings; occupied by the homeowner as a home and exempted by a homestead law from seizure of sale for debt. |
| Magpie | an incessantly talkative person, noisy chatterer. |
| Persnickety | overparticular. |
| Urchin | a mischievous boy. |