Chapters 4-6 Flashcards
Festoon
Book Sentence: “Smoke was rising here and there among the creepers that festooned the dead or dying trees.”
Definition: a string or chain of flowers, foliage, ribbon, etc., suspended in a curve between two points.
My Sentence: The flowers in the meadow were festooned all over the place.
Nimble
Book Sentence: “The heart of flame leapt nimbly across the gap between the trees and then went swinging and flaring along the whole row of them.”
Definition: Quick and light in movement; moving with ease; agile; active; rapid.
My Sentence: Her whole body was nimble while she was running.
Tendril
Book Sentence: “Here was loop of creeper with a tendril pendant from a node.”
Definition: a threadlike, leafless organ of climbing plants, often growing in spiral form, which attaches itself to or twines round some other body, so as to support the plant.
My Sentence: The babies legs were so tendril they seemed like a stem of a flower.
Oppressive
Book Sentence: “The silence of the forest was more oppressive than the heat, and at this hour of the day there was not even the whine of insects.”
Definition: burdensome, unjustly harsh, or tyrannical.
My Sentence: The silence was oppressive enough that I couldn’t it anymore.
Inscutable
Book Sentence: “Jack lifted his head and stared at the inscrutable masses of creeper that lay across the trail.”
Definition: incapable of being investigated, analyzed, or scrutinized; impenetrable.
My Sentence: There was an inscrutable number of people that were at the convention.
Barb
Book Sentence: “I’ve got to get a barb on this spear!”
Definition: a point or pointed part projecting backward from a main point, as of a fishhook or arrowhead.
My Sentence: The barb on the stem of the of the rose was really sharp.
Bewildered
Book Sentence: “Ralph gazed bewildered at his rapt face.”
Definition: completely puzzled or confused; perplexed.
My Sentence: The audience was bewildered at the magicians magic act.
Flaunt
Book Sentence: “A great tree, fallen across one corner, leaned against the trees that still stood and a rapid climber flaunted red and yellow sprays right to the top.”
Definition: to parade or display oneself conspicuously, defiantly, or boldly.
My Sentence: The models were flaunting their bodies in the new bikinis.
Furtive
Book Sentence: “For a moment his movements were almost furtive.”
Definition: taken, done, used, etc.
My Sentence: His movements were astonishing they seemed furtive.
Glimmer
Book Sentence: “The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers glimmering under the light that pricked down from the first stars.”
Definition: a faint or unsteady light; gleam.
My Sentence: All of the sparkles were glimmering in the sunlight.
Blatant
Book Sentence: “The glittering sea rose up, moved apart in planes of blatant impossibility; the coral reef and the few stunted palms that clung to the more elevated parts would float up into the sky, would quiver, be plucked apart, run like raindrops on a wire or be repeated as in an odd succession of mirrors.”
Definition: brazenly obvious; flagrant.
My Sentence: The truth was blatant, therefore, I have no idea why the police officer thought it was the other guy then the guy that had the gun in his hand.
Mirage
Book Sentence: “Sleep enveloped him like the swathing mirages that were wrestling with the brilliance of the lagoon.”
Definition: an optical phenomenon, especially in the desert or at sea, by which the image of some object appears displaced above, below, or to one side of its true position as a result of spatial variations of the index of refraction of air.
My Sentence: The people that live in the desert suffer many mirages.
Taboo
Book Sentence: “Here, invisible yet strong, was the taboo of the old life.”
Definition: proscribed by society as improper or unacceptable.
My Sentence: The taboo was present here in this room even if it was invisible.
Sinewy
Book Sentence: “Beside the pool his sinewy body held up a mask that drew their eyes and appalled them.”
Definition: having strong sinews.
My Sentence: The swimmer came out of the water his body all sinewy.
Malevolently
Book Sentence: “He looked malevolently at Jack.”
Definition: wishing evil or harm to another or others; showing ill will; ill-disposed; malicious.
My Sentence: He gave her a malevolently look after she left the crime scene.
