LOTF Vocabulary

intending to do harm

• contemptuous

• blatant

• malicious

• flippant

rebellious against authority

• contemptuous

• mutinous

• oppressive

• malicious

to laugh at and mock with contempt and hatred

• discern

• jeer

• exile

• acquit

a state of commotion, noise, and confusion

• tirade

• tumult

• jeer

a speech of violent denunciation (accusation)

• jeer

• tumult

• tirade

not revealing one's thoughts or feelings readily

• malicious

• oppressive

• flippant

• reticent

completely obvious

• oppressive

• blatant

• contemptuous

• flippant

Reticent means

• droll

• restrained

• inappropriate

• drastic

Contemptuous means

• melancholic

• scornful

• conceited

• devoted

Which of these would most likely feel oppressive?

• a television sitcom

• gloomy organ music

• an ointment applied to a rash

• fresh fruit in summer