A Little Piece of Ground -Vocabulary

lousy

• very poor or bad; disgusting

• uneasiness

• serious; somber; grave

• tear down completely, usually a building

rev

• not eager or happy to do something

• medicine that kills or slows the growth of bacteria

• the act of increasing the speed of an engine by stepping on the gas pedal

• the feeling of intense frustration

martyr

• a rule stating the time that people must be indoors

• a person who is killed because of their religious or other beliefs

• where the fingers join the hand

• very poor or bad; disgusting

knuckles

• evade or move faster than an oppon

• a successful ending of a struggle or contest

• a weight hung from a fixed point so that it can swing freely backward and forward

• where the fingers join the hand

triumph

• not allowed

• a successful ending of a struggle or contest

• not eager or happy to do something

• lasting forever

uneasiness

• evade or move faster than an opponent

• the feeling of intense frustration

• bad-tempered, argumentative, uncooperative

• feeling troubled or uncomfortable

curfew

• literal: to become drunk by consuming alcohol;

  figurative: to excite or exhilarate

• lasting forever

• a rule stating that people must be indoors

• medicine that slows the growth of bacteria

eternal

• serious; somber; grave

• lasting forever

• a mostly negative feeling of desire for something that someone has and you do not

• where the fingers join the hand

solemn

• a mostly negative feeling of desire for something that someone has and you do not

• feeling troubled or uncomfortable

• serious; somber; grave

• evade or move faster than an opponent

demolish

• a person who is killed because of their religious or other beliefs

• tear down completely, usually a building

• to kill many people at one time

• the act of increasing the speed of an engine by stepping on the gas pedal