Exploration in Literature Vocab 6A

Improbable

unlikely

Qualms

misgivings; doubts

Minute

tiny

Interrogations

questionings

Contusions

bruises

Abrasions

scrapes

Lurching

staggering, stumbling

Callous

feeling no sympathy for others

Brutal

harsh

Cryptic

mysterious

Subterfuge

deception

Mandatory

required

Murky

clouded, confused

Contemporaneous

those of his own age

Insolent

insulting

Inaudible

cannot be heard

Clobbered

smashed

Yearn

to desire strongly

Pallid

pale

Lethargic

tired, sluggish

Vagrant

one with no established home

Bemused

lost in thought; preoccupied

Mooned

wandered or hung about without purpose

Brogan

a heavy work shoe or boot

Vortex

something that draws the things around it into its center

Infallibility

inability to do wrong