"The Circuit" vocabulary

based on feelings or desires that do not come from thinking or learning

• instinctive

• savor

• insist

• hesitant

to discover or notice the presence of

• detect

• gasp

• seek

• acquire

to demand that something happen or that someone do something

• insist

• gasp

• instinctive

• acquire

to get (something)

• acquire

• initiate

• grasp

• detect

the clear liquid that forms on your skin when you are hot or nervous : perspiration

• sweat

• sweet

• slime

• water

a tenant farmer who owns a portion of each harvest for rent

• sharecropper

• farmer

• supervisor

• foreman

to enjoy the taste or smell of (something) for as long as possible

• savor

• sweat

• strain

• delicious

productive work (especially physical work done for wages)

• labor

• sweat

• homework

• laborer

to breathe in suddenly and loudly with your mouth open because of surprise, shock, or pain

• gasp

• grasp

• gloat

• sweat

to speak softly

• murmur

• scream

• insist

• reply