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reading vocab abbys
vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| tedius | tiresome do to length or dullnessadjective |
| nestled | to snuggle comfortablyverb |
| verdant | green with growing plantsadjective |
| shrilled | to make a piercing soundverb |
| ingenuous | straight forward, or naiveadjective |
| auburn | reddish brownadjective |
| insipid | dull looking, bad looking and tasteadjective |
| waggish | humorous and mischeiviousadjective |
| sagacious | lazy or idleadjective |
| retorted | to reply quickly, to answer back sharplyverb |
| fey | enchanted oneadjective |
| meagor | a scarce amount or a small amountadjective |
| awry | a miss, haywire,and wrongadjective |
| maine | hairnoun |
| portal | a door or an entrance way noun |
| sextet | a group of sixnoun |
| monotone | an unvaried pitchadjective |
| dread | verb to fear, someone who causes fear adjective |
| puerile | childish adjective |
| commence | to beginverb |
| snivel | to whineverb |
| somber | dark, gloomy, and sad adjective |
| sotto voce | softlyadjective |
| mausoleum | a large tombnoun |
| surreptitiously | done with stelf, sneakyadverb |
| survey | to look over and examineverb |
| uttered | to speakverb |
| loquacious | talkativeadjective |
| tittered | to giggleverb |
| mortified | very embarrassedadjective |
| jocose | wittyadjective |
| quel | to calm or to passifyverb |
| proximity | closenessnoun |
| distraught | ajitated with doubt; a mental conflictadjective |
| garbed | to clothverb |
| formidable | threateningadjective |
| perceptive | picks up on things adjective |
| blousy | loose fittingadjective |
| tresses | locks of hairnoun |
| qual | to cower or to shrink back in fearverb |
| sentries | to guardnoun |
| glower | to scowelverb |
| punctilious | someone who is concerned with rules and procedures adjective |
| mete | to dole outverb |
| subvocialize | to talk under your breathverb |
| utterance | talking or to speaknoun |
| amicable | friendly or likeable adjective |
| melodious | pleasing to the earadjective |
| pealed | to ringverb |
| daunting | to intimidate lessoned the couragedverb |
| titanic | big, lare,gigantic adjective |
| wisp | a streaknoun |
| muffle | to surpress or to quietverb |
| swiveled | to turn onverb |
| phenomenon | an extroadanary eventnoun |
| colleague | someone you work withnoun |
| incident | an occurance or a happening noun |
| paid heed | to pay attentionverb |
| intrepid | fearless, adventurousadjective |
| stern | strictadjective |
| martinet | strict disciplinariannoun |
| shenanigans | mischeivious activitynoun |
| confiscate | to seis or to take awayverb |
| querelous | whineyadjective |
| articulate | to speak clearly and effectivelyverb |
| inimitable | not capable of being imitatedadjective |
| malevolent | malicious, spitefuladjective |
| wrathful | full of angeradjective |
| wrath | angernoun |
| stifle | to surpress or to lessonverb |
| peers | people of equal rank or standing noun |
| demise | deathnoun |
| uncomprimising | inflexibleadjective |
| resume | to begin againverb |
| emit | to give outverb |
| pandemonium | wild uproar noun |
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