Great vocab for English Language Flashcards
Desultory = aimless/half hearted
He walked through the field in a desultory way
Teeming = really busy
The concert was teeming with people
Sedate/ed = Quiet/Dead
The house stood looking sedated
Succint/ly = in a few words/short
Succinctly she spoke as she froze in the cold
The letter was very succintly
Idle = to be lazy
Jack was very idle. He couldn’t even pick his pen.
Dishevelled = messy
His clothes were very dishevelled
Throng/ multitude = a crowd of people
The throng/ multitude walked towards the concert
Thronging = the crowds movement
The crowd were thronging into the park
Clamour = to demand something loudly or to utter noisily
children began to clamour with impatience
Cacophony = a mixture of loud unpleasant sounds
The cacophony was caused by the teeming shop
Sullenly = sad/ adverb
Sullenly, she walked towards the bus stop
Squalid = dirty area
The squalid area was filled with rubbish
detrimental = bad
the area corrected detrimental influence to the neighbour-hood
