Lesson 5 Vocabulary Words

A lack of courage or confidence; shyness

• listless

• melancholy

• timidity

A loud and continuing noise

• clamor

• agitate

• linger

A person who is running away, usually one trying to escape capture by the law

• reminisce

• fugitive

• ample

To make someone or something seem small or unimportant

• perceive

• perish

• belittle

Enjoyment; anything that adds pleasure or interest

• compassion

• melancholy

• relish

To think, talk, or write about one's experience in the past

• reminisce

• linger

• abode

Showing no interest in what is going on have no desire to do anything active

• Listless

• ample

• clamor

To be destroyed, ruined, or wiped out to die

• abode

• perish

• fugitive

The place where one lives

• ample

• linger

• abode

Enough or more than enough

• agitate

• abode

• ample