COE Vocab 3-5

RAUCOUS

• Rowdy, disorderly

• A loud uproar, as from a crowd of people

• A small stream, streamlet, brook

• A yawning fissure or deep cleft in the earth’s surface; gorge

CLAMOR

• A yawning fissure or deep cleft in the earth’s surface; gorge

• A loud uproar, as from a crowd of people

• Abnormally bent to one side; twisted; crooked

• Rowdy, disorderly

CHASM

• A yawning fissure or deep cleft in the earth’s surface; gorge

• A small stream, streamlet, brook

• Abnormally bent to one side; twisted; crooked

• Rowdy, disorderly

RIVULETS

• Abnormally bent to one side; twisted; crooked

• A small stream, streamlet, brook

• To catch, as in a net; entangle

• To turn to dust by natural decay; crumble

WRY

• To catch, as in a net; entangle

• To turn to dust by natural decay; crumble

• Abnormally bent to one side; twisted; crooked

• Painstaking, especially slow and careful; deliberate

ENMESHED

• To catch, as in a net; entangle

• To turn to dust by natural decay; crumble

• Painstaking, especially slow and careful; deliberate

• A project undertaken, especially one that is important or difficult

MOLDERING

• A project undertaken, especially one that is important or difficult

• Painstaking, especially slow and careful; deliberate

• To catch, as in a net; entangle

• To turn to dust by natural decay; crumble

METHODICALLY

• Painstaking, especially slow and careful; deliberate

• To pierce or pass into or through

• A project undertaken, especially one that is important or difficult

• To turn to dust by natural decay; crumble

PENETRATE

• A project undertaken, especially one that is important or difficult

• Painstaking, especially slow and careful; deliberate

• To pierce or pass into or through

• To turn to dust by natural decay; crumble

ENTERPRISE

• To turn to dust by natural decay; crumble

• To mix up in a confused or bungling manner

• The act or process of ransacking or robbing

• A project undertaken, especially one that is important or difficult