Tom Sawyer Vocabulary : 1,2,3

Question 1

(Noun) 1: acuteness of mental discernment and soundness of judgment.

Answer 1

Sagacity

Question 2

(Verb) 1: to move sideways. 2: to edge along. (Noun) 1: a sliding movement

Answer 2

Sidling

Question 3

(Noun) 1: cheerful readiness, promptness, or willingness. 2: liveliness; briskness.

Answer 3

Alacrity

Question 4

(Adj.) 1: resolutely fearless; dauntless.

Answer 4

Intrepid

Question 5

(Adj.) 1: vanishing; fading away; fleeting. 2: tending to become imperceptible; scarcely perceptible.

Answer 5

Evanescent

Question 6

(Adj.) 1: bending readily; flexible; supple; adaptable. 2: easily influenced; yielding to others; compliant.

Answer 6

Pliant

Question 7

(Verb) 1: to give the meaning or intention of; explain; interpret. 2: to deduce by inference or interpretation; infer. 3: to translate, especially orally. 4: to analyze the syntax of; to rehearse the applicable grammatical rules of. 5: to arrange or combine syntactically.

Answer 7

Construed

Question 8

(Adj.) 1: gloomily or sullenly ill-humored, as a person or mood. 2: characterized by or expressing gloom.

Answer 8

Morosely

Question 9

(Noun) 1: the state of being happy, especially in a high degree; bliss. 2: an instance of this. 3: a source of happiness. 4: a skillful faculty. 5: an instance or display of this. 6: Archaic. good fortune.

Answer 9

Felicity

Question 10

(Adj.) 1: being at variance; disagreeing; incongruous 2: disagreeable to the ear; dissonant; harsh. 3: Geology. (of strata) structurally unconformable

Answer 10

Discordant