World Lit Short Stories Vocab

(noun) setting free; removing from a difficult situation

• august

• apathy

• encroaching

• extricating

(adjective) spoken ill of

• ardent

• maligned

• disreputable

• tremulous

adj. not respectable; having or deserving a bad reputation

• encroaching

• disreputable

• jauntiness

• destitute

adj. intensely enthusiastic or devoted

• ulterior

• irreproachable

• ardent

• derisive

(adverb) secretively; sneakily; stealthily

• distraught

• apathy

• inscrutable

• furtively

adj. thoughtful in a wistful, sad way

• fanatical

• dejectedly

• pensive

• unperturbed

(adj.)- lacking the basic necessities of life; poverty- stricken

• distraught

• staidness

• destitute

• insolent

(noun) lack of interest or emotion

• relent

• apathy

• pandemonium

• commiserate

adj. above criticism; blameless

• staidness

• irreproachable

• pandemonium

• commiserate

(adjective) hesitant

• pensive

• tentative

• destitute

• ulterior