7TH GRADE VOCABULARY LIST 6
Test on Friday, November 22, 2013
Chapters 3-4 of The Pearl
1. furtive = secretive
2. consecrate to make holy / to bless
3. brooding = gloomy, moping
4. estuary = an inlet of water– with partial exposure to the open sea
5. cozened (past tense verb)= to trick or deceive
6. countenance = face
7. ramparts= a fort, bastion, bulwark
8. benign = harmless, kind
9. contemptuous = scornful, disrespectful
10. coagulating = thickening, congealing
11. defied (past tense for defy) = disobeyed
12. lethargy (n) / = laziness, fatigue, exhaustion
lethargic (adj.) = lazy, fatigued exhausted,
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