Vocabulary Week of 11/9

from an elevated perspective; existing in or having to do with the air.

• Aerial

• Inferno

• Strive

• Torrent

to shake or wave something in an aggressive manner.

• Tawny

• Desperate

• Brandished

• Clattered

to make a brief series of sharp sounds

• Brandished

• Clattered

• Igniting

• Torrent

having little or no hope

• Brandished

• Desperate

• Standpipe

• Strive

to set something on fire.

• Brandished

• Igniting

• Inferno

• Tawny

a large and dangerous fire

• Tawny

• Igniting

• Inferno

• Standpipe

vertical pipe in a building that supplies water to fire hoses

• Aerial

• Inferno

• Standpipe

• Tawny

to put forth great effort to achieve something

• Brandished

• Desperate

• Igniting

• Strive

having an orange-yellow-brown color

• Tawny

• Inferno

• Igniting

• Brandished

a strong, rushing force, often of water or air

• Aerial

• Inferno

• Strive

• Torrent