The Speckled Band Vocab 1

a state of excitement, worry, or disturbance

• quarrel

• agitation

• intuition

• morose

a disagreement or angry fight; an argument

• annual

• aristocratic

• convulse

• quarrel

taking place once a year

• bequeath

• convulse

• annual

• deduction

to suppose or assume something is true without proof

• presume

• perpetrate

• precise

• morose

relating to society's highest social class, whose members are usually wealthy and powerful

• agitation

• bequeath

• estate

• aristocratic

exact in movement

• precise

• mania

• intuition

• estate

to leave someone something, usually, by a will

• quarrel

• morose

• intuition

• bequeath

to carry out something, usually a wrong action.

• perpetrate

• deduction

• estate

• precise

to make one's thoughts known using words, pictures, gestures, or other means.

• convulse

• presume

• communicate

• agitation

sullen and gloomy

• quarrel

• morose

• mania

• estate