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English Vocab TS 3
Tom Sawyer Vocab section 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| impundence | speech or behavior that is aggressively forward or rude (obnoxious) |
| blanched | take the color out of |
| plausible | within the relam of credibility (possible) |
| formidable | extremely impressive in strength or excellence |
| inveterate | firmly established, long stanting; habitual (settled) |
| metaphorically | symbolically |
| clandestinely | secretly, sneaking about to do something |
| foliage | the leaves on a tree or plant |
| obtrude | to force oneself or one's ideas upon another (shove) |
| conflagration | a large destructive fire |
| ravenous | extremely hungry |
| sumptuously | lavishly; suggesting great exprise (luxuriously) |
| hilarity | mirth (great merriment) |
| soliloquized | to talk to oneself; to utter |
| reverent | show you love for god |
| menagerie | the facility where wild animals are housed for exhibition |
| reconciliation | the reestablishing of cordial relations |
| gravity | force |
| wistfully | full of wishful yearning |