Of Mice and Men Vocab Review

Question 1

Belligerently

Answer 1

In an aggressive or fighting manner

Question 2

Complacently

Answer 2

With self-satisfaction

Question 3

Consoled

Answer 3

Provide comfort to someone

Question 4

Contemplated

Answer 4

Thought deeply about

Question 5

Cowering

Answer 5

Moving backward in fear

Question 6

Debris

Answer 6

Fragments of something broken into pieces

Question 7

Indignation

Answer 7

Anger about an unfairness

Question 8

Jarred

Answer 8

Shook something abruptly

Question 9

Jeering

Answer 9

Laughing at someone in a hurt way

Question 10

Lanced

Answer 10

Pierced with a sharp object

Question 11

Liniment

Answer 11

Pain-relieving cream or ointment

Question 12

Lynch

Answer 12

Punish someone believed to have committed a crime

Question 13

Meager

Answer 13

Small and unsatisfying

Question 14

Monotonously

Answer 14

Uninteresting and boring

Question 15

Ominously

Answer 15

Indicating something bad or threatening is going to happen

Question 16

Pantomime

Answer 16

(Mime) an imitation of someone’s mannerisms

Question 17

Pugnacious

Answer 17

Always ready to fight or argue

Question 18

Reprehensible

Answer 18

Deserving criticism

Question 19

Writhed

Answer 19

Twisted/squirmed in pain(movement)

Question 20

Yammered

Answer 20

Wailed/whimpered in pain (sound)