Quizlet Alex - Set4

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  1. abuse: (n) cruel or inhumane treatment; improper or excessive use
  2. awe: (n) an overwhelming feeling of wonder or admiration
  3. beckoned: (v) call; gesture
  4. brittle: (adj) having little elasticity; easy to break
  5. contempt: (n) a willful disobedience to or disrespect for the authority of a court or legislative body, open disrespect for a person or thing
  6. controversy: (n) a prolonged public dispute, debate, or contention; disputation concerning a matter of opinion.
  7. doomed: (adj) marked for certain death
  8. drool: (n) saliva spilling from the mouth
  9. envy: (n) spite and resentment at seeing the success of another (personified as one of the deadly sins)
  10. exotic: (adj) being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world
  11. fiery: (adj) like or suggestive of fire
  12. grim: (adj) shockingly repellent; of a sinister or ghastly character; repellent
  13. grunt: (n) the short low gruff noise of the kind made by pigs
  14. hyper: (adj) more than normal; overexcited; overstimulated
  15. immaculate: (adj) completely neat and clean
  16. inconceivable: (adj) totally unlikely
  17. injustice: (n) unfairness or lack of justive; an unfair situation or action
  18. looming: (v) to appear in a large manacing way
  19. miscellaneous: (adj) consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds (even to the point of incongruity)
  20. mumble: (v) talk indistinctly, difficult to understand
  21. novice: (n) someone new to a field or activity
  22. outrage: (n) a feeling of righteous anger
  23. panic: (n) an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety
  24. physician: (n) a licensed medical practitioner; doctor
  25. recession: (n) the state of the economy declines
  26. retrospect: (n) contemplation of things past
  27. sadist: (n) someone who obtains pleasure from inflicting pain or others
  28. sanatorium: (n) pejorative terms for an insane asylum
  29. shrug: (n) a gesture involving the shoulders meaning 'not sure' or 'I don't know'
  30. slump: (n) a noticeable deterioration in performance or quality
  31. sob: (n) convulsive gasp made while weeping or crying
  32. solitary: (n) confinement of a prisoner in isolation from other prisoners
  33. suffocate: (v) struggle for breath
  34. thyroid: (n) located near the base of the neck; a gland that releases hormones
  35. tradgedy: (n) Where a story ends with a negative or unfortunate outcome which was essentially avoidable, usually cousedby aa flaw in the central character's personality.
  36. tremendously: (adv) extremely
  37. urine: (n) a fluid produced by the kidneys that contains water, urea and other waste materials
  38. volatile: (adj) marked by erratic changeableness in affections or attachments
  39. weird: (adj) strikingly odd or unusual
  40. writhing: (adj) having a twisting or snake-like or worm-like motion