Vocab 3 and 4

Dismal

• A small shopping mall

• cheerless and sad

• uninteresting

• discolored

Alter

• to change

• to make a mess

• to bring something to the alter

• the table in a church

Sly

• a species of bird

• clever and tricky

• slippery and slick

• rectangular

Engrossed

• focused

• turned off

• old

• engraved

Perceive

• to find something

• to receive something early

• to pierce

• to recognize

rapid

• raging waters

• a kind of raptor

• a small coffee cup

• to be angry

Strive

• to quit

• to attempt

• to dive deep

• to strike out

Falter

• the season before winter

• to fall

• hesitate

• to create

depart

• to devide

• to join together

• to leave

• to finish

Ruinous

• destroyed

• an old building

• very noisy

• indifferent