Vocabulary, Calvert 6th Grade Reading, Unit 2 (Lesson 30 - 4th Review)
Terms
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- tantalize
- entice
- havoc
- devastation
- drollery
- jest
- ostentatiously
- displaying with the intent to attract notice or in an attempt to impress others
- dismal
- gloomy
- grievously
- sorrowfully
- sullen
-
angry
(showing irritation or ill humor by a gloomy silence or reserve) - mortified
- humiliated, disgraced, shamed
- ebullition
- outburst
- oblivious
- thoughtless, unaware
- aesthetic
- pertaining to a sense of beauty, having a love of beauty, or being concerned with emotion or sensation as opposed to intellectuality
- cloistered
- secluded
- sere
- dry
- prepense
- deliberate, premeditated, planned in advance
- blithely
- cheerfully
- excruciation
- torture, the state of being tortured or the act of torturing (excrutiating)
- addlepated
- muddled
- hospitable
- friendly
- suppliant
- entreating
- pathetic
- without skill
- bedizened
- dressed
- beaus
- escorts (boyfriend or suitor)
- oblivion
- darkness
- tartly
- sharply
- frescoed
- painted
- discreet
- prudent
- effusion
- outpouring
- tenacity
- toughness
- ipecac
- purgative
- traipsing
- walking aimlessly, walk over
- dire
- terrible
- sated
- satisfied
- furtive
- secretive
- perquisites
- profits, gratuities
- sundry
- varied
- estranged
- alienated
- pung
-
sled, sleigh with a box-like body (similar to toboggan)
(This word is short for tom-pung, from the same Alguonquian etymon as "toboggan.") - crescendo
- loud tone
- dissipation
- dispersion
- capricious
- fanciful
- countenance
- appearance
- sojourn
- visit
- flummery
- nonsense
- liniment
- ointment
- trebled
- voiced
- pithy
- sharply focused
- ravishing
- entrancing
- inexorable
- unyielding
- dyspeptic
- suffering from indigestion, or gloomy, pessimistic, and irritable
- benefactor
- kindly helper
- demure
- shy
- harrowing
- extremely disturbing or distressing
- plaintively
- wistfully
- dryad
- minor deity
- anodyne
- medicinal
- mellow
- soft, made gentle and compassionate by age
- sonorous
- resounding
- precarious
- unsure
- gadding
- running around
- cogitation
- contemplation
- laudable
- praiseworthy
- feigned
- faked
- hampered
- inhibited
- motive
- incentive
- contemptuously
- arrogantly
- precedence
- rank (order, importance, priority)
- turbulent
- disturbed
- opined
- imagined
- vestry
- church interior
- cowered
- cringed
- snood
- headdress
- pall
-
melancholy, oppression
(noun) anything that covers or shrouds, especially with darkness or gloom
(verb) to have a wearisome or tiresome effect, to become distasteful or unpleasant - complacent
- smug
- peerless
- matchless
- nom de plume
- pen name
- coruscations
- qualities of light, sudden gleams or flashes of light
- trice
-
an instant
(to pull or haul with a rope) - parsed
-
used language
(described grammatically) - drabbled
- dirtied
- alabaster
- white
- retribution
- restitution
- subjective
- nonobjective
- riled
- annoyed
- impeached
- charged (to bring an accusation against)
- servitor
- servant
- epoch
- age
- token
- symbol
- prima donna
-
temperamental person
(also first or principal singer of an opera company) - blighted
- plagued
- diligent
- industrious
- retaliatory
- reprisal
- canto
- part of a poem (one of the main or larger divisions of a long poem)
- jaunty
-
brisk
(easy and sprightly in manner or bearing) - prosaic
- commonplace, dull
- enthralling
- charming
- appalling
- alarming (causing dismay or horror)
- evinced
- proved
- rue
- lament
- bounden
-
obligatory, compulsory
(one's bounden duty) - veranda
- porch
- undemonstrativeness
- crisp, not demonstrative
- dismay
- appall
- fray
- fight
- languished
- weakened
- burnished
- shined
- acutely
- sharply
- lithe
- adaptable
- dubious
- arguable, doubtful
- chastened
- disciplined
- conditioned
- seasoned
- elocutionist
- speaker
- scrutinized
- examined closely
- unpropitious
- untimely
- flounce
-
decorative trimming on the edge of a skirt or sleeve
to go with impatient or impetuous and exaggerated movement - fervently
- eagerly
- pallid
- deathly pale
- dint
- blow
- languidly
- weakly
- taunting
- jeering
- frigate
- ship
- coursers
-
travelers
dogs for hunting
swift horses - traverse
- travel, cross
- frugal
- not wasteful, meager
- moor
- grassland
- heather
- flowers
- shirrings
- pleatings
- garret
- attic
- pinnacle
- summit
- strife
- conflict
- infatuated
- fixated
- nominal
- formal, being in name only
- preposterous
- unreasonable
- bestow
- give
- gravitated
- moved, went over to, was drawn to
- chaplet
- flower
- dismayed
- disgruntled
- sanctifying
- enshrining
- wincey
- painful
- subside
- fall back
- preeminence
- superiority
- implore
- plead
- mite
- small contribution
- anguished
- upset
- vocation
- calling (work)
- congenial
- suited, agreeable
- vigil
- watch
- thwarted
- foiled
- birthright
- privilege
- convolutions
- turns of anything coiled, whorls
- dry
- dehydrated
- divined
- prophesied
- inscrutable
- impenetrable
- inveigled
-
caught
(enticed, lured, or ensnared by flattery or artful talk or inducements [usually followed by "into"]; acquired, won, or obtained by beguiling talk or methods [usually followed by "from" or "away"]) - reproachful
- disapproving
- roguish
- scoundrelly, rascally, playfully mischievous
- saffron
- orange-colored condiment (spice)