| Term | Definition |
|---|
| aloof | remote in manner |
| appreciation | a favorable judgment |
| apprehension | painful expectation |
| bemused | perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements |
| belligerently | in a belligerent hostile manner |
| woodenly | without any feeling, emotion |
| brittle | having little elasticity |
| wisp | small bunch (of hair); faint streak (of smoke) |
| complacently | in a self-satisfied manner |
| stilted | artificially formal |
| indignation | a feeling of righteous anger |
| scuttled | scrurried; scampered |
| imperiously | commandingly; arrogantly; dominantly |
| derision | scorn, ridicule, contemptuous treatment |
| mollified | to soften in feeling or temper |
| reverently | very respectfully |
| junctures | n. points of time |
| monotonous | tediously repetitious or lacking in variety |
| relish | vigorous and enthusiastic enjoyment |
| ominously | threateningly |
| mottled | having spots or patches of color |
| morosely | in a sad, gloomy manner |
| pugnacious | ready and able to resort to force or violence |
| reprehensible | shameful; very bad |
| slough | a stagnant swamp (especially as part of a bayou) |
| plaintively | sorrowfully |
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