Jasper Jones vocab Chapter 2

Select the correct definition: Bilious

• percussion instrument

• bitter, sharp in taste or temper

• foul-smelling; putrid

• affected by or associated with nausea or vomiting

Acerbic

• affected by or associated with nausea or vomiting

• Processes, causes, and effects of a disease; abnormality

• foul-smelling; putrid

• bitter, sharp in taste or temper

Affable

• Processes, causes, and effects of a disease; abnormality

• Friendly

• percussion instrument

• using few words

Mollify

• using few words

• Modest and reserved in manner or behavior

• to appease someone’s anger or anxiety

• Friendly

Desultory

• Friendly

• lacking enthusiasm, purpose or definite plan

• using few words

• to appease someone’s anger or anxiety

Laconically

• Cerebral

• using few words

• Friendly

• lacking enthusiasm, purpose or definite plan

Fetid

• bitter, sharp in taste or temper

• lacking enthusiasm, purpose or definite plan

• Modest and reserved in manner or behavior

• foul-smelling; putrid

Pathology

• Processes, causes, and effects of a disease; abnormality

• people who take the law into their own hands

• a single-celled animal that catches food and moves about by extending fingerlike projections of protoplasm.

• Modest and reserved in manner or behavior

Literati

• Modest and reserved in manner or behavior

• scholarly or learned persons

• bitter, sharp in taste or temper

• percussion instrument

Demure

• to appease someone’s anger or anxiety

• Friendly

• Modest and reserved in manner or behavior

• lacking enthusiasm, purpose or definite plan