Ensign Tom Sawyer Vocabulary
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Terrific, wonderful | "That's a BULLY marble, Tom!" exclaimed Jim with admiration. |
| Glasses | Aunt Polly pulled her SPECTACLES down and glanced about the room. |
| Stuff, junk | Before Tom could wipe jam from his mouth, Aunt Polly cried, "What is that TRUCK on your face?" |
| Generously display | The best boy was urged to come out and SPREAD himself by reciting Bible verses. |
| Fairly, rather | Aunt Polly asked, "It was MIDDLING warm in school, wasn't it?" |
| Beat, whip | Tom swore he would LICK the boy if he dared to step over the line. |
| Spank, beat | Aunt Polly threatened to TAN Tom if he didn't come back in time for supper. |
| Temper | Tom seemed to know just how long he could torment Aunt Polly before he got her DANDER up. |
| Snatched, stole | When Aunt Polly turned her back, Tom HOOKED a doughnut. |
| Rather | "You'd DRUTHER work than play, wouldn't you?" Ben teased Tom. |
| Honored, revered | ...the most hospitable and much the most lavish in the matter of festivities that St Petersburg could boast; the bend and VENERABLE mayor and Mrs Ward... |
| A passage or hall | ...then all the young clerks in town in a body for they had stood in the VESTIBULE sucking their can heads, a circling wall of oiled simpering admirers... |
| Liking or enjoyment of something | The minister gave out the hymn, and read it through with a RELISH, in a peculiar style which was much admired in that part of the country. |
| Ample, plentiful | ...a queer customer which is still kept up in America, even in cities away here in this age of ABUNDANT newspapers. |
| Tyrranical Rule | ...for poor sailors, tosse by stormy seas; for the oppressed millions groaning under the heel of European monarchies and oriental DESPOTISMS; for such as have the light and the good tidings... |
| Impatient, uneasy | He was RESTIVE all through it; he kept tally of the details of the prayer... |
| Noticeable, visible, clear, marked | ...he only thought of the CONSPICUOUSNESS of the principle character before the onlooking nations, his face hit up with the thought... |
| Careful, guarded | So he went to the beetle and began a WARY attack on it again; jumping at it from every point of a circle... |
| Shouted, made a loud noise | ...he crossed before the doors; he CLAMOURED up the home-stretch; his anguish grew with his progress... |
| Gladness and merriment usually accompanied by laughter | ...for even the gravest sentiments were constantly being received with a smothered burst of unholy mirth, with a smothered burst of unholy MIRTH, under cover of remote pew-back, as if the poor parson had said a rarely facetious thing. |
| Humorous, wisecracking | ...for even the gravest sentiments were constantly being received with a smothered burst of unholy mirth, under cover of some remote pew-back, as if the poor parson had said a rarely FACETIOUS thing. |
| Shackling or chaining | He generally began that day with wishing he had had no intervening holiday, it made the going into captivity and FETTERS again so much more odious. |
| Deserving hate or contempt | He generally began that day with wishing he had had no intervening holiday, it made the going into captivity and fetters again so much more ODIOUS. |
| Affected by gangreen | 'Oh, Aunty, my sore toe's MORTIFIED!' |
| Commotion/noise | "So all this ROW was because you thought you'd get to stay home and go fishing?" |
| A follower of something such as a leader, party, etc. | ...and one that had cut his finger and had been a centre of fascination and homage up to this time, now found himself suddenly without an ADHERENT, and shorn of his glory. |
| Intense dislike for | His heart was heavy, and he said with a DISDAIN which he did not feel, that it wasn't anything to spit like Tom Saywer... |
| Lasting for many years | Huckleberry was always dressed in the cast-off clothes of full-grown men, and they were in PERENNIAL bloom and fluttering with rags. |
| Prompt and cheerful response | He hung his hat on a peg, and flung himself into his seat with business-like ALACRITY. |
| Sly and secretive | Presently the boy began to steal FURTIVE glances at the girl. |
| Harsh feelings or hate | She thrust it away; Tom gently put it back; she thrust it away again, but with less ANIMOSITY. |
| Amazing | Tom drew an hourglass, with a full moon and straw limbs to it, and armed the spreading fingers with a PORTENTOUS fan. |
| A point where things join together | Just at this JUNCTURE the boy felt a slow fateful grip closing on his ear, and a steady lifting impulse. |
| Overjoyed and triumphant | But although Tom's ear tingled, his heart was JUBILANT. |
| A show put on by someone to impress others | ...then in the spelling class, and got 'turned down' by a succession of mere baby words till he brought up at the foot and yielded up the pewter medal which he had worn with OSTENTATION for months. |
| A mild, gentle breeze | There was not even a ZEPHYR stirring; the dead noonday heat had even stilled the songs of the birds... |
| State of being carefree | For FRIVOLITY and jokes, and spotted tights, were an offence when they intruded themselves upon a spirit that was exalted into the vauge, august realm of the romantic. |
| Highly distinguished | No, he would be a soldier, and return after long years, all war-worn and ILLUSTRIOUS. |
| Impossible to satisfy | ...and prance into Sunday-school, some drowsy summer morning, with a blood-curdling war-whoop, and sear the eyeballs of all his companions with UNAPPEASABLE envy. |
| Magic spell | He put his hand there, and uttered this INCANTATION impressively: "What hasn't come here, come! What's here, stay here!" |
| Absolutely trustworthy or sure | The truth was that a superstition of his had failed here, which he and all his comrades had alwyas looked upon as INFALLIBLE. |
| Settled securely or snugly | They found the sharp new heap they were seeking, and ENSCONCED themselves within the protection of three great elms that grew in a bunch within a few feet of the grave. |
| State of being impressive | Huckleberry was filled with admiration of Tom's facility in writing and the SUBLIMITY of his language. |
| Cautiously, secretly, quietly | A figure crept STEALTHILY through a break in the other end of the ruined building now, but they did not notice it. |
| Mournful, dismal, gloomy, especially in an exaggerated way | They continued to whisper for some little time. Presently, a dog set up a long, LUGUBRIOUS how just outside - within ten feet of them. |
| To emphasize the truth or importance of a statement | "Well he has, by JINGOES! Did he before?" |
| Rudeness, disrespect | "Infernal IMPUDENCE!" said a bystander; "wanted to come and take a quiet look at his work - didn't expect any company." |
| Whitened, made pale with fear | Tom BLANCHED and dropped his eyes. "It's a bad sign," said Aunt Polly, gravely. "What you got on your mind, Tom?" |
| In a credible way | Tom got out of the presence as quickly as he PLAUSIBLY could, and after that he complained of a toothache for a week, and tied up his jaws every night. |
| Fearful and difficult to conquer | The villagers had a strong desire to tar-and-feather Injun Joe and ride him on a rail for body-snatching, but so FORMIDABLE was his character that nobody could be found who was willing to take the lead in the matter, so it was dropped. |
| Talked to oneself | But she found nothing there to comfort her. She SOLILOQUIZED: "Oh, if I only had his brass andiron knob again!" |
| respectful; feeling or expressing profound respect or awe | Then quite a group of boys and girls - playmates of Tom's and Joe's - came by, and stood looking over the paling fence and talking in REVERENT tones of how Tom did so-and-so the last time they saw him, and how Joe said this and that small trifle (pregnant with awful prophecy, as they could easily see now!)... |
| wild animal exhibit; a collection of wild animals kept in captivity for the curiosity and entertainment of the public, sometimes as part of a traveling show | Smaller boys than himself flocked at his heels, as proud to be seen with him and tolerated by him as if he had been the drummer at the head of a procession, or the elephant leading a MENAGERIE into town. |
| the ending of conflict or renewing of a friendly relationship between disputing people or groups | He began to hate himself for throwing away the chance Becky had offered for a RECONCILIATION. |
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