Unit 7-Little Women

Impertinent

Rude

Melodramatic

exaggerated emotions and actions

Rummage

To search messily

Garret

Attic

Refuge

Safe Place

Petulant

Childishly sulky or bad-tempered

Irascible

Having a tendency to be easily angered or irritable.

Abashed

Embaressed/Ashamed

Voraciously

Hungrily or eager

Calamity

A disaster

Destitute

Without basic necessities

Languid

With little effort

Chagrin

Embarrassment from Humiliation

Ubiquitous

Seemingly everywhere

Lexicon

Dictionary

Perturbed

Annoyed, unsettled

Reprehensible

Deserving condemnation

Contrite

regretful

Capricious

Sudden change in behavior or mood

Audacity

Taken with bold risk

Conflagration

A large fire

Squall

A sudden violent gust

Assuage

To make something feel better

Incorrigible

Incapable of reform

Propriety

Conforming to societal standards

Ardent

Pasionate

Emaciate

To waste away from lack of nourishment

Didactic

Intended to teach

Impetuously

Acts done quickly without care

Indefatigably

Done without growing tired

Aplomb

Self-Confidence and assurance in stressful times

Ignominious

Deserving or causing public disgrace

Docile

Calm, Submissive

Beguile

To charm or enchant deceptively

Ostentatiously

Showy

Diaphanous

Light, delicate, translucent

Abnegation

Self-denial

Decorous

Polite and Restrained

Vehment

Showing strong feelings

Menagerie

A collection of Wild Animals