Chapter 9 Vocabulary

Question 0

Analogous

Answer 0

Similar or comparable

Question 1

Ambrosia

Answer 1

Dessert made of fruits, nuts, and coconut

Question 2

Attire

Answer 2

Clothing

Question 3

Bawled

Answer 3

Cried out loudly

Question 4

Bluff

Answer 4

The broad, flat front of a cliff

Question 5

Catwalk

Answer 5

Narrow, elevated walkway

Question 6

Changelings

Answer 6

Child secretly replaced with another

Question 7

Compensation

Answer 7

To make up for something

Question 8

Constituted

Answer 8

Made up

Question 9

Crooned

Answer 9

Sung in a low, gentle tone

Question 10

Deportment

Answer 10

Behavior

Question 11

Dim

Answer 11

Unclear or not strong

Question 12

Donned

Answer 12

Put on

Question 13

Doused

Answer 13

To pour liquid on

Question 14

Evasion

Answer 14

To avoid

Question 15

Fanatical

Answer 15

Extreme enthusiasm, interest, or zeal

Question 16

Gallantly

Answer 16

Politely

Question 17

Gastric

Answer 17

Relating to the stomach

Question 18

Gravitated

Answer 18

To be pulled toward something or someone

Question 19

Guilelessness

Answer 19

To have absolutely no craftiness

Question 20

Harbored

Answer 20

Held in the mud

Question 21

Hookah

Answer 21

Oriental tobacco pipe with a flexible tube to draw smoke through water

Question 22

Impaired

Answer 22

Damaged or weakened

Question 23

Indecision

Answer 23

The trait of being unable to make decisions

Question 24

Indicative

Answer 24

Showing or displaying something

Question 25

Ingenuous

Answer 25

Simple or innocent

Question 26

Innate

Answer 26

A natural part of something else

Question 27

Inordinately

Answer 27

Too great or too many

Question 28

Invective

Answer 28

Abusive terms, curses, or insults

Question 29

Isolate

Answer 29

Set apart from others

Question 30

Jar

Answer 30

Shake up or disturb

Question 31

Jetty

Answer 31

A type of wall built out into water to protect a coastline or to restrain currents

Question 32

Mishaps

Answer 32

Unlucky or unfortunate accidents

Question 33

Mortify

Answer 33

Humiliate; embarrass

Question 34

Nocturnal

Answer 34

Nightly

Question 35

Obsess

Answer 35

Greatly preoccupy

Question 36

Obstreperous

Answer 36

Noisy and unruly

Question 37

Pantry

Answer 37

Small closet, usually located by a kitchen, where food is stored

Question 38

Porter

Answer 38

One who carries luggage

Question 39

Provocation

Answer 39

Excitement of feelings, usually of anger

Question 40

Ringworm

Answer 40

Contagious skin disease caused by a fungus

Question 41

Siblings

Answer 41

Brothers and/or sisters

Question 42

Still

Answer 42

Apparatus for making liquor

Question 43

Subdued

Answer 43

Soothed, made less intense

Question 44

Tarried

Answer 44

Delayed; waited

Question 45

Tentatively

Answer 45

With hesitation

Question 46

Tongs

Answer 46

Two-armed device used to grab or lift object

Question 47

Trousseau

Answer 47

The new clothes which a bride brings to her marriage

Question 48

Uncompromising lineaments

Answer 48

Features that don’t change

Question 49

Wary

Answer 49

To be cautious

Question 50

Widow’s walk

Answer 50

Railed platform built on a roof

Question 51

Yankees

Answer 51

Northerners; those native to the Northern United States