10th grade WordMaster 1

Wanda C. (United States of America)
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  1. jauntily
    in a jaunty fashionable manner
  2. meander
    move or cause to move in a winding or curving course
  3. soddy
    a house built of grassy turf laid in horizontal layers
  4. envelop
    enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering
  5. interminable
    tiresomely long; seemingly without end
  6. frond
    compound leaf of a fern or palm or cycad
  7. indiscriminate
    failing to make or recognize distinctions
  8. prodigal
    recklessly wasteful
  9. transfiguration
    a striking change in appearance or character
  10. stealthy
    marked by quiet and caution and secrecy
  11. clamber
    climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling
  12. forsake
    leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch
  13. islet
    a small island
  14. rank
    relative status
  15. insolent
    marked by casual disrespect
  16. foul
    highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust
  17. languid
    lacking spirit or liveliness
  18. indifference
    the trait of remaining calm and seeming not to care
  19. hummock
    a small natural mound
  20. vexation
    anger produced by some annoying irritation
  21. tauten
    become taut or tauter
  22. lavish
    given or giving freely, generously, or without restriction
  23. flail
    an implement with a handle and a free swinging stick
  24. pastoral
    devoted to raising sheep or cattle
  25. personify
    attribute human qualities to something
  26. wanton
    a lewd or immoral person
  27. onomatopoeia
    using words that imitate the sound they denote
  28. allude
    make an indirect reference to
  29. foreshadow
    indicate by signs
  30. dearth
    an insufficient quantity or number
  31. compulsive
    having obsessive habits or irresistible urges
  32. tone
    the distinctive property of a complex sound
  33. exuberance
    joyful enthusiasm
  34. intrusion
    entrance by force or without permission or welcome
  35. menace
    something that is a source of danger
  36. boisterous
    marked by exuberance and high spirits
  37. allegory
    a short moral story
  38. allegorical
    characteristic of or containing a symbolic meaning or moral
Created on Mon Oct 05 21:29:23 EDT 2009 (updated Mon Oct 05 21:31:10 EDT 2009)

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