Flush Chapters 7-9 Vocabulary

What does ruthless mean?

• to establish a colony in; settle:

• Without pity or compassion; cruel; merciless; heartless

• abruptly concise; curt; brusque. (to the point, not overly friendly; to be short with someone.)

What does slanderous mean?

• a malicious, false, and defamatory statement or report that is harmful to a person.

  (Telling a lie about a person to make them look bad.)

• having an attitude of doubt: doubtful

• an official who works by fixed routine without exercising intelligent judgment. Example: a politician

What does skeptical mean?

• having an attitude of doubt: doubtful

• Without pity or compassion; cruel; merciless; heartless

• to establish a colony in; settle:

What does colonized mean?

• a malicious, false, and defamatory statement or report that is harmful to a person.

  (Telling a lie about a person to make them look bad.)

• an official who works by fixed routine without exercising intelligent judgment. Example: a politician

• to establish a colony in; settle:

What does bureaucrat mean?

• abruptly concise; curt; brusque. (to the point, not overly friendly; to be short with someone.)

• an official who works by fixed routine without exercising intelligent judgment. Example: a politician

• Without pity or compassion; cruel; merciless; heartless

What does tersely mean?

• a malicious, false, and defamatory statement or report that is harmful to a person.

  (Telling a lie about a person to make them look bad.)

• having an attitude of doubt: doubtful

• abruptly concise; curt; brusque. (to the point, not overly friendly; to be short with someone.)