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Short Story Vocab 2

TermDefinition
Gaudy bright and showy but in a bad taste way
Butte an isolated hill/mountain with steep sides has a smaller summit
Furrows a trench in the earth made by a plow
Laden heavily or loaded
Blustered to speak load and aggressive and give empty threats
Queue A braid of hair worn at the back of the head
Indolence laziness
Banter good-natured, witty joking conversation
Acrid irritating or upsetting
Surmise to guess or conclude will little evidence
Tremulous quivering from weakness or fear
Regiment an army unit smaller than division
Sublime majestic, grand
Cavorting leaping/frolicking about
Warrens small crowded spaces/little holes in the ground where rabbits live
Bough a tree branch- a large main part
Solvent something that can dissolve something else
Whims a sudden impulsive idea
Homily a sermon on a religious topic
Obstinately not yielding to argument or persuasion
Cosmopolitan being worldly, sophisticated and cultured
Commiserate to express or feel sympathy/pity
Deference humble submission/respect
Disposed to be willing or likely to do something
Disconcertingly disturbing/unsettling
Created by: moo.S
 

 



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