Prenicious - deadly; hurtful
Reverently - deeply respectful
Repose - at rest; calm
Deceit - trick
Remonstrated - to say or plead in protest or disapproval
Triumphantly - having victory or success
- Looked at her sympathetically
- Deep-rimmed brown
- A cluster of lavender velvet roses
- Steep, sloping roof
- Clopped and clanged
- Relief and comfort flooded me and I took the last tired steps in a bound
- A deep dramatic intake us all look up
- A tumbler of thick brown liquid
- Each word bristling with suspicion
- Glared into it with righteous zeal (passion, desire)
- Rimless spectacles
- Wondered idly (not working, active)
To be continued...
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Sunday, April 26, 2009
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
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
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