English Vocabulary Words!

Vocabulary Individual Words

Regurgitate - swallowed food (bring up)
Calamity - disaster
Anguish - suffering
Prudent - acting with, showing care of
Avail - an opportunity; available resource
Contention - heated disagreement
Miniature - small
Rudimentary - involving; limited to basic principles
Jeopardized - risk
Meager - inadequate
Vacillating - indecisive; swaying
Shorn - cut; remove
Wizen - dry up; wither
Itinerant - traveling place to place (wandering)
Resplendent - gleaming; splendid
Gaily - merrily, cheerfully; showiness
Ponderous - great weight; awkward
Bawl - cry, wail
Reprove - criticize; correct (disapprove strongly)
Deluged - anything that overwhelms like flood

Vocabulary Phrases

- Neck craned to see
- Square of pale pearl sky
- Tipsy old wardrobe
- Plunged down the steep twisting stairway
- Enormously wealthy customer
- Lingered in the streets
- Elaborate set piece
- Sour faced, scowling (gloomy) individual
- Blue eyes behind the thick round spectacles were as mild and merry as ever
- Gazed from one of us to the other with frank delight
- Notable (praiseworthy) quality
- Steady stream of guest
- Dutiful mother
- Glanced out of one wide-set eye
- Throngs of strollers (crowd)
- Wearing the nearest thing to a smile that her perpetually down drawn lips would permit
- A chill of silence fell over the table and spread swiftly around the room
- Typical broad brimmed black hat
- Raw and gaping wound
- Sat down stiffly on the edge of a chair