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Names Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| submerged | (verb) sunk; covered with liquid |
| amiss | (adjective) wrong or improper |
| convivial | (adjective) sociable or friendly |
| cease | (verb) to stop |
| anachronism | (noun) something out of its proper time in history, like a television in the Middle Ages or penicillin in ancient Rome |
| forlorn | (adjective) hopeless, deserted, abandoned |
| receded | (verb) withdrew; became more distant |
| dwindle | (verb) shrink, as in to lessen in quantity |
| flimsy | (adjective) poorly made; easily broken or damaged |
| climes | (noun) regions |
| interior | (noun) inside of something, usually a structure |
| mosaic | (noun) made of small pieces of colored stone, glass, etc. |
| pendulums | (noun) hanging weights that swing back and forth; used to regulate the movement of old-fashioned clocks |
| vacuum | (noun) closed space with the air sucked out |
| plague | (noun) deadly disease that spreads quickly |