CRASH: Vocabulary, chapters 18-32
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18 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 stiff-armed | Using a hand and straight arm at the opponents head or chest area to avoid a tackle. |
| whirling | to turn around, spin, or rotate rapidly |
| scrumptious | delicious |
| complicated | difficult; presenting special challenges |
| fluorescent | strikingly bright, vivid, or glowing |
| portrait | a painting of a person's face |
| rummage | to search thoroughly or actively through (a place, receptacle, etc.), especially by moving around, turning over, or looking through contents |
| quaking | to shake or tremble from cold, weakness, fear, anger |
| infested | overrun; filled with pests |
| confession | an admission of misdeeds or faults |
| habitat | the place where an animal or plant naturally lives |
| whined | to utter a low, usually nasal, complaining cry or sound, as from uneasiness, discontent, peevishness, etc. |
| obnoxious | very unpleasant; annoying; offensive |
| safety | a defensive player in the backfield |
| swabbie | a sailor in the U.S. Navy |
| carnival sideshow | a small, separate show, often featuring an exhibit of unusual people or animals |
| "batten down the hatch" | to cover the openings in a ship's deck; used here to mean close the door |
| Achilles tendon | the tendon that runs up the back of the ankle, connecting the heel to the calf muscle |
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