Vocabulary notes Mrs. Dunlap lhs

Impudent

Disrespectful

Acrimonious

Bitter in feeling

temertiary

Reckless boldness

Accost

To confront boldly

Deportment

Behavior, conduct

gallant

Statley, brave, courteous and sometimes self-sacrificing

obscure

not readily understood or clearly expressed

Abide

To tolerate; to accept without rejection

Melancholy

Thoughtful or dejected

Austere

Cold in appearance or manner

Tacit

Understood but unspoken

Benevolente

Well-meaning and kindly

Placid

Calm, peaceful, untroubled

Asinine

Extremely foolish or stupid

Induce

To successfully persuade or influence someone to do something

Sundry

Variety; various

Volition

self-will

Elucidate

to clairfy

Akimbo

Arms bent and hands on hips

acquiesce

To give in- succumb

Condescend

To show feelings of superiority

Prerogative

Right or privilege

Myopic

Short-sighted in planning or thinking

Curt

Rudely brief in speech

Fortitude

Patient courage under affliction or temptation; moral strength

Beholden

Obligated

Cantankerous

Contrary or quarrelsome

Interdict

An order forbidding some action

Contentious

Combative; given to disagreement; characterized by dispute

Innate

In-born; existing from birth

Assuage

To lessen

Procure

To obtain by effort

Predication

Preference

Tirade

Long, vehement speech; usually condemning something

Aberration

Deviation from the normal course

Sullen

Ill-tempered; gloomy

Earnest

To show sincerity

Snivel

To cry and sniff in a weak irritated way

Retort

A sharp, angry or witty response to a remark or accusation

Lame

Unable to walk without difficulty

Passé

Out of date

Livid

Pale; very angry; grayish - blue

Umbrage

Offense given or taken

Rectitude

Righteous principle or practice

Antagonize

to oppose; to make hostile

Inordinate

excessive

Tarry

To be tardy in something, coming, acting

Obstreperous

Resisting control in a noisy manner

Vehemntley

Passioned with feelings, actions, or speech

Nebulous

Unclear

Vex

To annoy, irritate or provoke

Cordial

Hearty; warmly, friendly

Flinty

Hardened against persuasion or tender feelings

Laden

Heavily loaded or weighed down

Quell

To extinguish

Archly

Mischievously

Grizzled

Gray or part grey

Belligerent

War- like

Ostensibly

Supposedly

Complacent

Self-satisfied

Rapt

Deeply engrossed

Reprehensible

Blameworthy

Bemused

Confused

Wry

Bitterley ironic

Apprehension

Suspicion of fear or future trouble

Morose

Gloomy

Busque

Abrupt in manner; blunt, rough

Lumber

To walk heavily

Gingerly

Cautiously

Plaintively

Pleadingly

Crestfallen

Depressed, dejectedd

Derision

Mockery, ridicule

Contemptuously

Expressing contempt or disdain, scornfully

Woodenly

Stiffly, without spirit

Pugnacious

Quarrelsome, incline to fight

Prodigy

A person, especially a young one, endowed with exceptional qualities or abilities

Lament

Mourn

Indignity

Treatment or circumstances that cause one to feel shame or to lose one’s indignity

Nonchalantly

In a casually calm and relaxed manner

Reproach

To express disapproval or disappointment

Solipsist

A person who believes their self define reality

Maganamoius

Generous or forgiving, especially toward a rival or less powerful person.

Furtive

Secretive

Paranoid

Extremely fearful and suspicious

Morbid

Abnormally susceptible to unwholesome or gloomy feelings

Formidable

awe-inspiring

lout

Uncouth and aggressive

indifferent

Uninterested, unsympathetic, unconcerned

Bough

a main branch or tree

Blanch

To become pale

Avail

To help

Scourge

A harsh punishment or suffering

gullet

throat leading down to the stomach

maelstrom

Large, violent whirlpool98

Dote

To act in a foolishly or overly tend manner

Hale

Robust

Founder

to fall, stumble

Appease

To pacify

Beguile

To charm, sometimes deceptivley

Snare

A trap