"Every Falling Star" Ch. 9-30 Flashcards
- Arduous
Involving or requiring strenuous effort; difficult and tiring.
- Admonish
To warn or reprimand someone firmly.
- Haunches
The part of the human body below the waist and above the legs; the butt and the hips.
- Wilting
Becoming limp or drooping, typically as a result of heat or lack of water.
- Haggard
Looking exhausted and unwell, especially from fatigue, worry, or suffering.
- Jimmy
to force open
- Pallid
Pale, typically because of poor health.
- Cacophony
A harsh, discordant mixture of sounds.
- Precipice
A very steep rock face or cliff, typically a tall one.
- Compliant
Inclined to agree with others or obey rules, especially to an excessive degree; acquiescent.
- Saunter
To walk in a slow, relaxed manner, without hurry or effort.
- Morose
gloomy and ill-tempered.
- Chortle
To chuckle gleefully.
- Tousle
: To make something (especially a person’s hair) untidy or disordered.
- Sashay
To walk in a showy yet casual manner, typically with exaggerated movements of the hips and shoulders.
- Pilfer
To steal (typically things of relatively little value).
- Eerily
In a strange and frightening manner.
- Meander
To wander at random.
- Moor
secure or tie up
- Disheveled
Untidy; disordered.
- Hawking
carry around and offer (goods) for sale, typically advertising them by shouting.
- Quip
A clever or witty remark.
- Gourd
A fleshy, typically large fruit with a hard skin, some varieties of which are used to make containers or musical instruments.
- Coddled
spoiled and pampered
- Plummet
to fall or drop down at high speed
