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Crispin Vocab :)
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Serpentine | Resembling a snake in form or movement |
| Contempt | Open disrespect for a person or thing |
| Transgressions | Acts of going beyond or overstepping some boundary or limit-Breaking the law |
| Buffeting | hitting or beating repeatively |
| Disconcerted | embarrassed, shook up or agitated |
| Cloying | Overly sweet or rich |
| Jibe | Insulting Remark |
| Poaching | Hunting Illegally |
| resumption | a beginning again |
| Foreboding | The feeling that something bad is going to happen |
| sumptuously | expensively or lavish |
| livery | a distinctive uniform worn by the male servants of a house hold |
| Pelting | moving at a vigorous fast gaint |
| Tumult | disorderly commotion or disturbance; a riot |
| laggards | person who lags behind; stragglers |
| Taunted | to try to make someone angry or upset with cruel remarks |
| Murk | darkness or a thick cloud, which prevents you from seeing clearly |
| Furtively | in a sly or stealthy manner |
| Deigned | agreed to do something although you consider yourself too important to have to do it |
| Shroud | a cloud or long loose piece of clothing that is used to wrap a dead body before it is buried |
| Sustenance | Necessities or daily bread |
| Besieged | Surrounded, Attacked or Blockaded |
| Dire | urgent or desperate |
| Desolation | devastation, ruin; the state of being destroyed |
| Trepidation | a state of alarm or dread; apprehension |
| Meandering | moving aimlessly without a fixed direction |
| Distended | swelled, bloated, or expanded |
| Contorted | twisted or bend severely out of shape |
| Reverence | a feeling of profound awe and respect; honor |
| Punctilious | strictly attentive to minute details of form in action or conduct |
| Mollify | to calm in temper or feeling;soothe or soften |
| Raucously | Rough sounding harsh |
| Timorous | timid; full of apprehensiveness |
| Bluster | full of empty threats |
| Railed | expressed objections or criticisms in bitter, harsh, language |
| Evasive | intentionally vague; tricky |
| Subdued | made less intense;toned down |
| Slake | satisfy or quench |
| Rueful | inspiring pity or compassion; sorry |
| Gambol | playful skipping or frolicking about |
| unfettered | was set free or kept free from restriction |
| voracious | eager to consume great amounts of food |
| protruded | jutted out or bulged |
| succumb | to submit to an overpowering force;to die |
| brandished | waved ro flourished |
| infatuated | inspired with unreasoning love or attachment |
| impending | being about to occur |
| Stagnant | foul or stale from standing |
| Lofty | arrogant and haughty |
| Rebuke | to criticize or scold |
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