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Descriptive Words Flashcards

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Loud noise

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Tumult

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Noisy disorder or confusion

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Pandemonium

“There was a complete pandemonium- everyone just panicked”

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A harsh discordant mixture of sounds

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Cacophony
“A cacophony of deafening alarm bells”

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Overwhelming happiness , joyful excitement

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Ecstatic

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Fascinated manner

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Enthralled

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Gradually spread through or over

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Suffused
“Her cheeks we’re suffused with scarlet

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Making an abrupt , unsteady, uncontrolled movement

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Lurch
“The car lurched forwards “

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Quivering movement

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Tremors

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A whirlpool

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Vortex

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A crowd

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A surge of people

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Sentences of excitement

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His heart gave a huge bound, as ripped back the yellow paper

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Some one approaching

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There was a crunch of gravel outside, as the car pulled into the driveway

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Dying in a fight

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I faced down too weak to move, sick and shaking.
With every ounce of strength he could muster
Eyes blurred with sweat,
Flighting to stay conscious, I could feel my last spec of strength leave me .

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In a fight

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They grabbed me by both of my shoulders and pushed me into one of the toilet cubicles.
I really couldn’t breath, tears flowing uncontrollably from my eyes

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Trying not to be heard or seen

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Stealthily
I woke up and stealthily crept downstairs

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To search untidily for something

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Rummaged
He rummaged his pockets for a handkerchief

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Expressing disapproval or disappointment

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Reproachful
She gave him a reproachful look

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To make

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Rendered
The news rendered her speechless

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Overcome with rage

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Apoplectic

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Sticking out

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Protruding.
As a child I was often teased about my protruding ears.
Cautious of any Protruding nails

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To roll something out

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Unfurl
I unfurled the crumpled note

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Easily becoming impatient or angry

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Testy /testily

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Loud harsh and unpleasant sound

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Raucous
Raucous laughter

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Making full or completing again

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Replenish

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To eat lots of in a greedy way

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Gorge

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Inspiring fear

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Formidable

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Full of something that they are holding

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Laden.
I came home laden with shopping plates

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Slightly open door

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Ajar
(Adjective)

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Not a good feeling

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The gnawing sensation grew at the pit of my stomach

30
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Anger

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My blood boiled, gushing through my viens at the speed of 100mph
Throbbing uncontrollably, my heart was only thing I could hear.
Breathing in and out relentlessly, I could feel her voice distort into the back of my head. On the verge of eruption ,I focused hard on the floorboards ,not wanting to glare into her serpent slit eyes. A sharp flicker of irritation was expanding inside me

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Embarrassing

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My jaw remained hanging in mid air, as I tried to form words, but nothing could escape my throat. I could feel myself shrinking into the ground, as her sinister smile floated above my head. My muscles were too tense to move , as though frozen in place.
Flushing a deep scarlet ,it was as though my cheecks were being pumped by an internal furnace.
My hear dropped to the pit of my stomach , when I realised that
Tears stung my eyes , as I was mocked mercilessly
Hot tears caused down my cheecks
I swallowed hard as ….

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something bad

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  • abhorrent
  • henious
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something happy

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  • euphoric
  • jubilant
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something sad

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  • morose
  • melanchony/melanchonic
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something angry

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  • indignant
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fast

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  • swift
  • rapid
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big

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  • colossal
  • gargantuan
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small

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  • boxy
  • miniscule
  • microscopic
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confused

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  • bemused
  • befuddled
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smart

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  • astute
  • shrewd
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weak

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  • feeble
  • decrepit
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to run

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  • dashed
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nice

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  • cordial
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lazy

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  • lackadaisical
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strange

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  • outlandish
  • paradoxical
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a red complexion

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  • florid
  • his face grew florid as he tripped and fell
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howling or barking loudly

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  • baying
  • the baying hound instilled a grave fear within the girl, as she backed away towards the entrance of the room
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extremley black

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  • obsidian
  • she was surrounded in an obsidian mist, obsuring her vision
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unpleasantly bright

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  • lurid
  • The lurid curtains evolked an immediate scoff of disbeleif from the young boy
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extremley bright or luminous

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  • phosphorescent
  • the vast, endless, phosphorescent ocean
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favourable

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  • auspicious
  • everyone bowing their heads at her feet was her auspicious outcome
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beautiful

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  • pulchritudinous
  • he admird the pulchritudinous
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longer than the direct route

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  • circuitous
  • The River Thames circuitously flows through London
54
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pleasant sounds

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  • mellisonanat
  • The tumultous monstrosity blasting from the speakers transitioned into a mellisonant tune
55
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brown

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  • umber
  • an umber fog fell upon the town

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