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TTM C11 Vocab
Vocabulary Words for Chapter 11 of The Time Machine
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| fashion | mode of action or operation; way |
| indefinite | not certain in amount or length |
| unheeding | not paying attention to (advice, a warning, etc.) |
| indicators | a device that shows a measurement |
| prodigious | very great |
| indicative | showing something; indicating something |
| alternations | repeated series of events (usually back and forth) |
| brooded | sat on to incubate, like a bird on eggs; thought a lot about something in an unhappy way |
| comet | an object in outer space that develops a long, bright tail when it passes near the sun |
| darkling | growing darker |
| broader | larger from one side to the other side (like breadth) |
| motionless | without movement |
| dome | a large rounded roof or ceiling that is shaped like half of a ball |
| momentary | lasting a very short time; lasting only a moment |
| extinction | being extinguished; being snuffed out; being eliminated |
| sullen | dull, somber, dismal, gloomy; unhappy and not wanting to talk |
| cautiously | carefully, to avoid danger or risk |
| Indian red | dark reddish brown |
| scarlet | bright red |
| projecting | jutting out; sticking out; protruding |
| lichen | a type of small plantlike organism that grows on rocks and walls |
| perpetual | continuing forever or for a very long time without stopping |
| wan | looking sick or pale; having a weak quality; dim, faint |
| breakers | waves breaking into foam (like against the shore) |
| swell | an upward and downward movement of the water in the sea |
| margin | the place where something (such as a piece of land) stops; the edge of something |
| incrustation | a crust or hard coating; a growth or accumulation resembling a crust |
| lurid | shining or glowing with a bright and unpleasant color |
| mountaineering | the sport or technique of scaling mountains |
| rarefied | (if you’re talking about air) not having much oxygen because of being high up in the atmosphere; (or) understood by only a small group of people; only for people who know about a particular thing |
| slanting | taking a diagonal course, direction, or path |
| dismal | showing or causing unhappiness or sad feelings; not warm, cheerful, etc. |
| yonder | at or in that place; over there |
| antennae | thin, sensitive organs on the head of an insect, crab, etc., that are used mainly to feel and touch things (plural) |
| carter’s whips | whips used by a person who drives a cart to get the horse to move |
| stalked | held up by eyestalks |
| corrugated | having a wavy surface |
| ungainly | having an awkward appearance; moving in an awkward or clumsy way; not graceful |
| bosses | a part that sticks out |
| blotched | marked with imperfect spots |
| sinister | having an evil appearance; looking likely to cause something bad, harmful, or dangerous to happen |
| apparition | an unusual or unexpected sight; a ghostly figure |
| lighted | dismounted; settled; landed |
| threadlike | like a long, thin line of something |
| drawn | pulled |
| qualm | a sudden feeling of doubt, fear, or another disturbing emotion |
| appetite | a physical desire for food; a desire or liking for something |
| algal | coming from seaweed or algae |
| stony | made of stone or hard like stone; showing no emotion or friendliness |
| crustacea | animals (such as crabs or lobsters) that have several pairs of legs and a body made up of sections that are covered in a hard outer shell (plural) |
| fascination | being so interested in something that it’s almost like it cast a spell over you |
| a tenth part | one-tenth |
| livid | discolored by a bruise |
| liverworts | a flowerless, spore-producing plant, with the spores produced in small capsules |
| flecked | marked with small spots or marks of something on different parts of a surface; speckled |
| assailed | attacked violently |
| ever and again | now and then; occasionally |
| sable | black or very dark brown |
| fringes | narrow areas along the edge of something |
| expanse | a large and usually flat open space or area |
| indefinable | impossible to describe or explain |
| testified | showed that something is true or real; gave proof of something |
| concavity | a space that is curved inward |
| bay | an inlet of the sea or other body of water usually smaller than a gulf (this is being used as a metaphor) |
| aghast | shocked and upset |
| eclipse | when one celestial body totally or partially covers another one up |
| transit | passage of a smaller body (like Venus) across the disk of a larger (like the sun) |
| bleating | the sound that a sheep or goat makes |
| peaks | the pointed tops of mountains |
| smote | hurt, killed, or punished; hit very hard |
| bow | a simple curve, like the shape made by the bow part of a bow and arrow |
| shoal | shallow water |
| football | Soccer ball. Remember, this is England. |
| weltering | rising and falling or tossing about in or with waves |
| fitfully | not regularly or steadily, like you’re having a fit or seizure |
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