Flashcards: WordMasters 4 Blue 1 VCS
All 25 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 cascade | Noun-a sudden downpour (as of tears or sparks etc) likened to a rain shower, a small waterfall or series of small waterfalls Verb -rush down in big quantities |
| guffaw | Noun-a burst of deep loud hearty laughter, Verb-laugh boisterously |
| frail | Adjective-easily broken or damaged or destroyed Noun-a basket for holding dried fruit (especially raisins or figs), the weight of a frail (basket) full of raisins or figs Adjective-physically weak |
| ridge | Noun-a beam laid along the ridge of a roof, plough alternate strips by throwing the furrow onto an unploughed strip, throw soil toward (a crop row) from both sides, any long raised strip, a long narrow range of hills, any long raised border or margin of a bone or tooth or membrane |
| pester | Verb-annoy persistently |
| jovial | Adjective-full of or showing high-spirited merriment, |
| vessel | Noun-a craft designed for water transportation, an object used as a container (especially for liquids), a tube in which a body fluid circulates |
| torment | Noun-intense feelings of suffering, a feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented, unbearable physical pain Verb-treat cruelly, harrass someone |
| brawny | Adjective-(of a person) possessing physical strength and weight |
| ruse | Noun-a deceptive maneuver (especially to avoid capture) |
| wail | Noun-a cry of sorrow and grief Verb-cry weakly or softly, emit long loud cries |
| gaunt | Adjective-very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold |
| orchard | Noun-garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowth |
| batter | Noun-a flour mixture thin enough to pour or drop from a spoon, (baseball) a ballplayer who is batting Verb-strike against forcefully |
| ramshackle | Adjective-in deplorable condition |
| cyclone | Noun-a violent rotating windstorm |
| glare | Noun-an angry stare, great brightness, a focus of public attention Verb-look at with a fixed gaze, shine intensely |
| hardy | Adjective-able to survive under unfavorable conditions, resolute and without fear |
| juniper | Noun-coniferous shrub or small tree with berrylike cones, desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having small white flowers |
| surly | Adjective-angry and bad-tempered; rude, inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace |
| glade | Noun-a tract of land with few or no trees in the middle of a wooded area |
| herd | Noun-a group of cattle or sheep or other domestic mammals all of the same kind , a crowd especially of ordinary or undistinguished persons or things Verb-move together |
| shrill | Adjective-high-pitched and sharp |
| glen | Noun-a narrow secluded valley (in the mountains) |
| chuckle | Noun-a soft partly suppressed laugh Verb-laugh quietly or with restraint |