Short Story Vocab

Question 1

Bitter

Answer 1

Exhibiting strong animosity as a result of pain or grief

Question 2

Audacious

Answer 2

Very confident and daring
Perhaps recklessly so
Original and bold
Contemptuous of law, religion, or decorum

Question 3

Caustic

Answer 3

Intense use of sarcasm

Stinging or biting (inducing emotional pain)

Question 4

Contemplative

Answer 4

Studying
Thinking
Reflecting on an issue

Question 5

Detached

Answer 5

Aloof and objective

Question 6

Forthright

Answer 6

Directly frank without hesitation

Frank-open, honest, candid

Question 7

Foreboding

Answer 7

With fearful apprehension

Question 8

Hostile

Answer 8

Unfriendly

Antagonistic

Question 9

Indignant

Answer 9

Marked by anger

Aroused by injustice

Question 10

Ironic

Answer 10

Marked by usage of words that mean the opposite of what you really think/feel in order to be funny or deceptive/manipulative

Question 11

Irreverent

Answer 11

Having or showing a lack of respect for something or someone that is usually tested with respect

Question 12

Jovial

Answer 12

Happy

Question 13

Malevolent

Answer 13

Having or showing a desire to harm another

Arising from intense and vicious ill will,spite, hatred (malicious)

Question 14

Objective

Answer 14

An unbiased view

Aw to keep personal judgments aside

Question 15

Ominous

Answer 15

Suggestive that bad things will come
Foreboding of evil
Inauspicious
Portentous

Question 16

Sardonic

Answer 16

Scornfully and bitterly sarcastic

Question 17

Satiric

Answer 17

Ridiculing to show weakness in order to make a point, teach

Question 18

Sanguineous

Answer 18

Optimistic

Cheerful

Question 19

Taunting

Answer 19

Sarcastically challenging or insulting

Question 20

Unnerving

Answer 20

Causing on to become nervous, afraid, upset, unable to think clearly

Question 21

Whimsical

Answer 21

Odd, strange, fantastic, fun