click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Tom Sawyer red 9&10
words to own
Question | Answer |
---|---|
ingenuity | n. p1. ingenuities. Inventive skill or imagination; cleverness. Imaginative and clever design or construction: a narrative plot of great ingenuity. An ingenious or imaginative contrivance. |
pervade | v. pervaded, pervading, pervades To be present throughout; permeate. |
ensconced | v. To settle(oneself) securely or comfortably: She ensconced herself in an armchair. To place or conceal in a secure place. |
vagrant | n. One who wanders from place to place without a permanent home or a means of livelihood. A wanderer; a rover. One who lives on the streets and constitutes a public nuisance. |
ruffian | n. A tough or rowdy person. A thug or gangster. |
combatant | n. One, such as a person or a combat vehicle, that takes part in armed strife. |
fatal | adj. Causing or capable of causing death. Causing ruin or destruction; disastrous: Of decisive importance; fateful: came through at the fatal moment. Concerning or determining ones fate: the fatal thread of life. |
fuddle | v. fuddled, fuddling, fuddles To put into a state of confusion; befuddle. See Synonyms at confuse. To make drunk; intoxicate. |
dire | adj. direr, direst Warning of or having dreadful or terrible consequences; calamitous: a dire economic forecast; dire threats. Urgent; desperate: in dire need. |
prophecy | n. p1. prophecies An inspired utterance of a prophet, viewed as a revelation of divine will. A prediction of the future, made under divine inspiration. Such an inspired message or prediction transmitted orally or in writing. |
apprehensive | adj. Anxious or fearful about the future; uneasy. See Synonyms at afraid. Capable of understanding and quick to apprehend. |
lugubrious | adj. Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree. |