Tom Sawyer Vocab 4

Question 1

form or compose

Answer 1

Constitute

Question 2

motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that
govern a person’s thoughts and actions

Answer 2

Conscience

Question 3

fully detailed and specific about particulars

Answer 3

Circumstantial

Question 4

the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations

Answer 4

Sagacity

Question 5

marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners

Answer 5

Natty

Question 6

look angry or sullen, wrinkle one’s forehead, as if to signal disapproval

Answer 6

Glower

Question 7

a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed

Answer 7

Melancholy

Question 8

liveliness and eagerness

Answer 8

Alarcrity

Question 8

characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the
spiritual world

Answer 8

Worldly

Question 9

direct one’s course or way

Answer 9

Wend

Question 10

behave in a patronizing and condescending manner

Answer 10

Condescend

Question 11

tending to vanish like vapor

Answer 11

Evanescent

Question 12

secret and sly or sordid

Answer 12

Furtive

Question 13

express criticism towards

Answer 13

Reproach

Question 14

ask for or request earnestly.

Answer 14

Beseech

Question 15

not in agreement or harmony

Answer 15

Discordant

Question 16

neglecting to do something; leaving out or passing over something

Answer 16

Omission

Question 17

totally unlikely

Answer 17

Inconceivable

Question 18

come out into view, as from concealment

Answer 18

emerge

Question 19

having unsuitable feminine qualities

Answer 19

Effeminate