vocabulary words (Bruiser-Brontë)

Question 1

Emphatically

Answer 1

Without question and beyond doubt

Question 2

Mainstream

Answer 2

The prevailing current of though

Question 3

Hail

Answer 3

Precipitation of ice pellets

Question 4

Sloppy

Answer 4

Lacking neatness or order

Question 5

Spite

Answer 5

Meanness or nastiness

Question 6

Fervently

Answer 6

With strong emotion or zeal

Question 7

Meddle

Answer 7

Intrude in other people’s affairs or business

Question 8

Jagged

Answer 8

Having a sharply uneven surface or outline

Question 9

Quell

Answer 9

Suppress or crush completely

Question 10

Peck

Answer 10

Kiss lightly

Question 11

Sear

Answer 11

Become superficially burned

Question 12

Flock

Answer 12

A group of birds

Question 13

Subside

Answer 13

Wear off or die down

Question 14

Sprain

Answer 14

Twist suddenly so as to wrench

Question 15

Limp

Answer 15

Walk impeded by some physical injury

Question 16

Clearing

Answer 16

A treeless tract of land in the middle of a wooded area

Question 17

Keelhauled

Answer 17

Punish someone (a sailor) by dragging him through the water and under the keel of the ship. The barnacles that are attached to the keel will scratch the body of the person and injure him/her severely.

Question 18

Favour

Answer 18

An act of generous kindness

Question 19

Wade

Answer 19

Walk through relatively shallow water

Question 20

Reluctantly

Answer 20

With a certain degree of unwillingness

Question 21

Conundrum

Answer 21

A difficult problem

Question 22

Limb

Answer 22

Any of the main branches from the trunk or a bough of a tree

To go out on a limb = to take risk that may result in danger; make yourself vulnerable

Question 23

Oblivious

Answer 23

Lacking conscious awareness of something

Question 24

Gist

Answer 24

The central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work

Question 25

Turmoil

Answer 25

A violence disturbance