Short Story Vocabulary Quiz

prevented; made impossible in advance

• accosted

• retribution

• precluded

• explicit

payback; punishment for a misdeed

• subsided

• retribution

• termination

• recoiling

greeted, especially in an aggressive way

• termination

• reribution

• recoiling

• accosted

suffering or sickened

• recoiling

• retribution

• termination

• afflicted

clearly stated

• explicit

• subsided

• termination

• accosted

staggering backward

• precluded

• accosted

• recoiling

• termination

end

• retribution

• termination

• explicit

• recoiling

settled down; became less active

• accosted

• recoiling

• termination

• subsided

able to be touched

• indolently

• bizarre

• palpable

• naive

lazily; idly

• naive

• scruples

• blandly

• indolently