Of Mice and Men Vocabulary

Question 1

Imperiously

Answer 1

adv; assuming authority

Question 2

Mollify

Answer 2

verb; soften/reduce the anger or anxiety of someone

Question 3

Pugnacious

Answer 3

adj; eager or quick to argue/ pick a fight

Question 4

Derogatory

Answer 4

adj; showing disrespectful attitude

Question 5

Brusque

Answer 5

adj; abrupt in speech

Question 6

Apprehensive

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adj; anxious that something bad will happen

Question 7

Complacently

Answer 7

adv; showing smug satisfaction with one’s achievements; pleased with one’s achievements

Question 8

Precede

Answer 8

verb; come before

Question 9

Contemptuous

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adj; scornful; expressing that a person or a thing is beneath consideration ex. she was contemptuous of the majority of the human race

Question 10

Indignation

Answer 10

noun; anger provoked by unfair treatment

Question 11

Meager

Answer 11

adj; lacking in quality

Question 12

Derision

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noun; ridicule or mockery

Question 13

Crestfallen

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adj; sad (head fallen)

Question 14

Aloof

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adj; not friendly and distant

Question 15

Migrant

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noun; someone esp. a worker who moves from place to place

Question 16

Reprehensible

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adj; deserving strong disagreement

Question 17

Plaintive

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adj; seeming sad/mournful

Question 18

Ominous

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adj; giving the impression something bad is going to happen

Question 19

Earnestly

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adv; showing sincere firm belief

Question 20

Morose

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adj; sullen

Question 21

Confide

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verb; tell somebody something secret hoping they don’t tell

Question 22

Sullenly

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adv; bad tempered; sulky; ill humored; sluggishly; gloomy

Question 23

Console

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verb; comfort at a time of grief

Question 24

Coarse

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adj; rough in texture

Question 25

Belligerently

Answer 25

adv; hostile and aggresive