"Of Mice and Men"--Chapter 4 Vocabulary

beat, battered, or tore at a person or animal

• brutally
• liniment
• mauled
• averted

aloof...

• pain-relieving cream or ointment
• uninvolved with people or events; remote
• attempting to please with flattery
• turned away

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

unsatisfactorily small; unsatisfying

• mauled
• fawning
• meager
• indignation

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

liniment

• a pain-relieving ointment or cream
• charming; friendly or trusting
• in an unrelentingly harsh or cruel way
• downcast, disappointed, or humiliated

attempting to please with flattery

• fawning
• disarming
• appraised
• indignation

disarming

• charming; friendly or trusting
• attempting to please with flattery
• feeling or expressing great contempt for someone or something
• anger about an unfairness or wrongdoing

feeling or expressing great contempt for someone or something

• fawning
• disarming
• scornful
• indignation

brutally

• anger about an unfairness or wrongdoing
• unsatisfactorily small; unsatisfying
• in an unrelentingly harsh or cruel way
• turned away

anger about an unfairness or wrongdoing

• brutally
• liniment
• meager
• indignation

averted

• downcast; disappointed, or humiliated
• looked over; made a judgement about
• turned away
• uninvolved with people or events; remote