"The Scarlet Ibis" Vocabulary

sullen

• to escape

• compassionate

• serious

imminent

• near or close

• defeated

• reluctant

iridescent

• a strong aroma

• colors of a rainbow

• looking like something or someone

serene

• hesitant

• recurring

• peaceful

infallible

• imploringly

• immortal

• incapable of being wrong

blighted

• tired

• ruined

• loosened

doggedness

• persistence

• bothersome

• not equal to

reiterated

• repeated

• rejoined

• reimagined

precariously

• noiselessly

• openly

• awkwardly

mar

• to copy or imitate

• to spoil or ruin

• anger or annoyance