shattering glass vocab 11-20

Question 1

Recalcitrant

Answer 1

adjective
stubbornly refusing to obey rules or orders.
Simon worked on the recalcitrant.

Question 2

Supposition

Answer 2

noun
an idea or theory that one believes is true.
She also starts out the novel with a set of facts designed to support the suppositions in the novel.

Question 3

Clamorous

Answer 3

adjective
full of noise.
Clamorous public events and private individual actions, equally, are muffled by memory.

Question 4

Abashed

Answer 4

Adjective
to be embarrassed.
He was a little abashed by her regal composure.

Question 5

Despondent

Answer 5

adjective
very sad and without hope.
Despondent about the future than hopeful and only the second time since 1992.

Question 6

Concur

Answer 6

verb
to agree.
Friend was saying about the policy of the SNP, I wholeheartedly concur.

Question 7

Barrage

Answer 7

noun
a great amount of something that comes quickly and continuously.
They advanced behind a creeping barrage - a curtain of falling shells which crept forward just ahead of them.

Question 8

Ingrained

Answer 8

adjective/verb
being a part of the inner most nature of a being.
These habits became deeply ingrained in his design psyche.

Question 9

Plod

Answer 9

verb
to walk slowly with heavy steps.
Plod down the stairs to his lawyer’s office on the floor below.

Question 10

Ostentatious

Answer 10

adjective
obsessively showy displaying wealth knowledge, talented skill that is meant to attract attention or jealousy. The area’s ostentatious peasantry has mostly acquired its gaudy real estate with the help of remittances from abroad.