"The Birds" Vocab Flashcards
Disposition
Personality or temperament
Character traits
Necessity
Something necessary or indispensable
something you need
Placid
Calm untroubled peaceful
Apprehensive
Uneasy or fearful about something that might happen
anxious or fearful that something bad is going to happen
Worried or nervous
Silhouetted
The outline or general shape of something.
The dark shape and outline of something or someone visible against lighter background
Clamor
A loud and confused noise especially that of people shouting
A loud uproar as from a crowd of people
Recounted
Describe in detail or narrated
To reduce or start over
Sullen
Gloomy
Gannett
A large seabird was mainly white feathers
Furtively
Stealthily as if to avoid being seen or heard
Secretive
imperative
Extremely important or urgent
Fretful
Irritable and discontented
Feeling or experiencing destress
Uneasy upset irritated
Pram
A baby carriage
Gib
Balk hesitant
Unwilling to accept an idea or undertaking
Pasty
Meat pie
