Of Mice and Men Vocab List #2

show smug or uncritical satisfaction with achievements

• Complacently

• Jarred

• Cowering

• Derogatory

crouch down in fear

• averted

• cowering

• jeering

• meager

turn away

• jeering

• averted

• apprehension

• complacently

Hostile and aggressive

• belligerently

• complacently

• derogatory

• bewildered

making rude and mocking remarks, typically in a loud voice

• jeering

• derogatory

• scornfully

• cowering

showing a critical or disrespectful attitude

• meager

• derogatory

• belligerently

• complacently

anxiety or fear that something unpleasant will happen

• apprehension

• averted

• scornfully

• meager

lacking in quantity or quality

• meager

• averted

• jeering

• cowering

perplexed and confused; very puzzled

• bewildered

• cowering

• complacently

• jeering

feeling or expressing contempt

• scornfully

• bewildered

• belligerent

• complacently