What Do Fish Have To Do With Anything? Vocabulary

Contemplate

• Look thoughtfully for a long time at.

• Look patiently for a long time.

• Look for a long time.

• Stare at something for a long time.

Threshold

• A strip of wood, metal, or stone on the side on the doorway.

• A strip of wood, metal, or stone on top of the doorway.

• A strip of wood, metal, or stone forming the bottom of a doorway.

• A strip of wood, metal, or stone across the doorway.

Retort

• Say something in a sharp, angry, or wittily incisive manner.

• Say something with happiness or in joyful ness.

• Say something in a loud voice.

• Say something a sad voice.

Preoccupied

• Happy

• Distracted

• Not doing anything.

• Unhappy

Inevitably

• Is not to happen.

• Can’t happen.

• Is certain to happen.

• Sometimes happen.

Urgency

• Importance requiring swift action.

• Not important.

• Move slowly.

• To move to it sometimes.

Manicure

• Badly trim or cut an area of land.

• Neatly trim or cut an area of land.

• Don’t trim at all.

• Halfway trim.

Nuisance

• A person or a thing that is angry.

• A person or a thing that is angry.

• A person or a thing causing inconvenience or annoyance.

• A person or a thing causing joyful ness.

Shrill

• High-pitched, piercing voice or sound.

• A distraction sound.

• A happy voice or sound.

• A excited voice or sound.

Vaguely

• In a way that is a lot of information.

• In a way that is very detailed.

• In a way that is certain, definite or clear.

• In a way that is uncertain, indefinite or unclear, roughly.