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miracle worker(vocab
vocab act two, pg 64-90 of Miracle Worker
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| spews | spit out |
| pummels | the act of beating |
| intimated | make known |
| kercheif | a womens scarf |
| parasol | small umbrella |
| relinquishing | give up |
| protracted | delay |
| interrogate | to question |
| disinter | to notice |
| stifling | very hot/stuffy |
| incompetent | unsuited |
| impertinent | rude |
| ineffectual | useless |
| fivolous | silly |
| scuttled | lost |
| vexedly | irriatation |
| dourly | sternly |
| plague | disease that kills |
| almshouse | poor house |
| immune | not affected by |
| wheeling | to reverse ones felling |
| siege | surrond, blockade |
| tolerate | put up with |
| apprenhensive | fearful of the future |
| silhouette | a dawing consisting of the outline of something |
| conspicuously | obvivous |
| curtly | rude, breifly abrupt |
| nettled | to irritate |
| recoils | shrinks back phsyically or mentaly |
| careens | carelesly |
| paroxysm | sudden outburst of emotion |
| dawns | to begin to understand |
| wrly | drly humerous |
| prone | flat, face down |
| intractably | stubbornly |
| shaft | a sharp beam of light |
| solicitude | care or concern |
| diminutive | small person or thing |