Summer Reading Vocab

Barrage

a concentrated artillery bombardment over a wide area

Futile

incapable of producing any useful result; pointless

Abject

experienced something bad to the maximum degree

Debonair

confident, stylish, and charming

Chasten

have a restraining or moderating effect on

Forlorn

sad and abandoned or lonely

Insurmountable

impossible to overcome

Muffle

wrap or cover for warmth

Jagged

having a sharp, pointed edge or outline

Imprint

impress or stamp (a mark or outline) on a surface or body.

bluff

(v) to try to make someone believe that you will do something that you do not really intend to do, or that you know something that you do not really know

(n) an attempt to trick someone by making them believe that you will do something when you really have no intention of doing it, or that you know something when you do not, in fact, know it

Wince

(Verb) to draw back suddenly, as though in pain or fear;

(Noun) the act of drawing back in this way

Yoke

(noun); A burden or something that oppresses; a frame for attaching animals (such as oxen) to each other and to a plow or other equipment to be pulled, or a bar across a person's shoulders to help carry buckets of water, etc.

(verb) to unite together or to burden

Ruthless

showing no mercy; pitiless

muted

quiet, soft

Shrilled

high-pitched and piercing

Heave

lift and throw

Allegiance

loyalty or commitment of a subordinate to a superior or of an individual to a group or cause.

Cog

a wheel or bar with a series of projections on its edge that transfers motion by engaging with projections on another wheel or bar.

Robust

strong and healthy

Predisposed

Tending toward or open to something beforehand

Orthodoxy

authorized or generally accepted theory, doctrine, or practice

Resonant

Having an effect; powerful

Fluctuate

To change continually; to move up and down

Coalesce

to blend; to merge