The Secret Life of Walter Mitty- Academic List

Allison C.
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  1. insinuatingly
    in an insinuating manner
    "You are a crack shot with any sort of firearms, I believe?" said the District Attorney, insinuatingly.
  2. hurtle
    move with or as if with a rushing sound
    The crew, bending to their various tasks in the huge, hurtling eight-engined Navy hydroplane, looked at each other and grinned.
  3. cocky
    overly self-confident or self-assertive
    They're so damn cocky, thought Walter Mitty, walking along Main Street; they think they know everything.
  4. bickering
    a quarrel about petty points
    Walter Mitty raised his hand briefly and the bickering attorneys were stilled.
  5. pandemonium
    a state of extreme confusion and disorder
    Pandemonium broke loose in the courtroom.
  6. derisive
    expressing contempt or ridicule
    They went out through the revolving doors that made a faintly derisive whistling sound when you pushed them.
  7. distraught
    deeply agitated especially from emotion
    He looked distraught and haggard.
  8. fleeting
    lasting for a markedly brief time
    "We only live once, Sergeant," said Mitty with his faint, fleeting smile.
  9. lurch
    move suddenly or as if unable to control one's movements
    "Pick it up, brother!" snapped a cop as the light changed, and Mitty hastily pulled on his gloves and lurched ahead.
  10. barrage
    the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area
    "The box barrage is closing in," said the sergeant.
  11. grossly
    in a gross manner
    She seemed grossly unfamiliar, like a strange woman who had yelled at him in a crowd.
  12. inscrutable
    difficult or impossible to understand
    Then, with that faint, fleeting smile playing about his lips, he faced the firing squad; erect and motionless, proud and disdainful, Walter Mitty the Undefeated, inscrutable to the last.
  13. vaulted
    having a hemispherical vault or dome
    The attendant vaulted into the car, backed it up with insolent skill, and put it where it belonged.
  14. haggard
    showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering
    He looked distraught and haggard.
  15. craven
    lacking even the rudiments of courage; abjectly fearful
    Mitty looked at him and at the craven figure of Benbow, who drank, and at the grave, uncertain faces of the two great specialists.
  16. menacing
    threatening evil or danger
    The pounding of the cannon increased; there was the rat-tat-tatting of machine guns, and from somewhere came the menacing pocketa-pocketa-pocketa of the new flame-throwers.
  17. savagely
    in a vicious manner
    The District Attorney struck at her savagely.
  18. glistening
    reflecting light
    He began fingering delicately a row of glistening dials.
  19. remote
    located far away spatially
    Walter Mitty drove on toward Waterbury in silence, the roaring of the SN202 through the worst storm in twenty years of Navy flying fading in the remote, intimate airways of his mind.
  20. astonishment
    the feeling that accompanies something extremely surprising
    He looked at his wife, in the seat beside him, with shocked astonishment.
  21. hastily
    in a hurried manner
    "Pick it up, brother!" snapped a cop as the light changed, and Mitty hastily pulled on his gloves and lurched ahead.
Created on Thu Sep 26 10:10:15 EDT 2013

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