| Term | Definition |
|---|
| drone | to talk on and on in a dull, monotonous way |
| periscope | an optical instrument that allows objects to be viewed in other positions |
| dejectedly | being in low spirits; depressed; literally "thrown down" |
| pantomime | communication by gesture and facial expression |
| imperiously | commanding; overbearing, arrogantly domineering |
| pugnacious | ready and able to resort to force or violence |
| archly | having a superior, pleased attitude, with playful slyness or roguishness |
| apprehensive | fearful; anxious |
| complacently | smug; content to a fault; self-satisfied |
| morosely | sullenly melancholy; gloomily |
| mollify | to calm in temper; to soothe |
| contort | twist, bend severely out of shape |
| plaintively | mournfully, expressing sorrow |
| brusquely | abrupt and curt in manner of speech; discourteously blunt |
| grizzled | having fur or hair streaked with gray |
| derision | ridicule; jeering, contemptuous (harsh) laughter |
| see, watch | SCOP, as in microscope, telescope, kaleioscope, stethoscope |
| to please | PLAC, as in placate, placid, placidly, placebo |
| twist | TORT, as in torsion, torque, extort, extortion, torturous, retort |
| laugh | RID, RIS, as in ridicule, ridiculous, deride, riddle |
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