The Adventure of the Speckled Band Vocabulary

state of being disturbed, excited, or troubled

• agitation

• writhed

• averse

• scruple

of noble blood; upperclass

• aristocratic

• blandly

• vigil

• protruding

unwilling ; reluctant

• averse

• compliance

• agitation

• vigil

smoothly and gently

• agitation

• blandly

• pittance

• pretense

behavior that conforms to a request or order; obedience

• perplexity

• averse

• dawdling

• compliance

complete; overall

• blandly

• comprehensive

• deprived

• pretense

delaying; lagging

• vigil

• pittance

• dawdling

• averse

conclusions reached by reasoning

• deductions

• blandly

• scruple

• perplexity

took something away from: stripped or robbed

• compliance

• deprived

• impending

• vigil

blown or blotted out

• extinguished

• impending

• pittance

• prolong