Our Town Vocab

Question 1

Belligerent

Answer 1

Warlike

Question 2

Diligent

Answer 2

Hardworking

Question 3

Contriving

Answer 3

Plotting

Question 4

Exasperated

Answer 4

irritated or extremely annoyed

Question 5

Careening

Answer 5

Swaying, tipping to one side

Question 6

Affronted

Answer 6

insulted

Question 7

Musingly

Answer 7

Absorbed in thought

Question 8

Unobtrusively

Answer 8

Not obvious

Question 9

Cynicism

Answer 9

Mournful

Question 10

Gingham

Answer 10

Garment made out of cotton fabric, usually woven in stripes, checks or plaid

Question 11

Hellotrope

Answer 11

A plant with fragrant white or purple flowers

Question 12

Sentinel

Answer 12

guard or sentry

Question 13

Meterologist

Answer 13

having to do with the weather

Question 14

orations

Answer 14

formal speeches

Question 15

crestfallen

Answer 15

disheartened

Question 16

hallowed

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set a part as holy

Question 17

discretion

Answer 17

the ability or power to decide responsibly

Question 18

shroud

Answer 18

a cloth used to wrap a body for burial

Question 19

alacrity

Answer 19

prompt and cheerful response

Question 20

conceit

Answer 20

excessively high opinion of ones own ability and worth

Question 21

despairing

Answer 21

hopeless, despondent, discouraged

Question 22

Languid

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slow, sluggish, listless, weak

Question 23

muse

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to ponder

Question 24

Savant

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A scholar, a learned person

Question 25

shrill

Answer 25

Highpitched or piercing as a sound

Question 26

vestiges

Answer 26

remanants, traces, remains

Question 27

legacy

Answer 27

a gift by will somethign handed down by an ancestor

Question 28

congregation

Answer 28

a body of assembled people or things; a gathering

Question 29

agrarian

Answer 29

pertaining to farming

Question 30

banal

Answer 30

meaningless, commonplace

Question 31

caprice

Answer 31

an implusive change of mind

Question 32

ennui

Answer 32

boredom

Question 33

laconic

Answer 33

using a few words, concise

Question 34

mendacious

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untruthful

Question 35

obviate

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to prevent

Question 36

Perennial

Answer 36

continual; enduring

Question 37

schism

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split; discord

Question 38

voracious

Answer 38

very greedy

Question 39

omniscient

Answer 39

knows everything; universal; all knowledge