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Vocabulary 2
Killing Mr Griffin vocabulary test
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Vehemently | With extreme intensity of emotion |
| Saunter | A careless or leisurely walk |
| Dwindle | Smaller or steadily less |
| Alienated | Lost or confused as to personal identity or socially isolated |
| Amid | In the middle or or among |
| Decoy | A thing or person used to lure or tempt into danger or a trap |
| Alibi | The defensive plea or fact that someone was elsewhere than at the scene of the crime with which the person is charged |
| Awe | A mixed feeling of fear and wonder causes by something majestic |
| Accustomed | Usual or customary. Habituated or familiar. |
| Harsh | Sharp or rough it smooth to the touch, coarse. Excessively severe. |
| Scrawny | Very thin skinny or bony |
| Explicable | That can be explained... Explainable |
| Forbade | To forbid or rule against. |
| Meticulous | Marked by precise accordance with details and extreme care |
| Irritably | Easily annoyed, readily angered or impatient |
| Squabbling | To engage in petty quarrel |
| Faze | To cause to be disturbed |
| Dazzling | To over power or dim the vision of by intense light Impressive or delightful |
| Deliriously | Wild excitement, enthusiasm, restless, delusional |
| Illiterate | Unable to read or write or demonstrating little to no education |