Word Detectives Vocabulary Review

Lacking energy, being lazy, slow to move or act

• feeble

• sluggish

• revert

• exerted

To guide or move along a set path of course

• gorge

• evade

• route

• navigate

to tease or insult in a mocking manner

• taunt

• antagonist

• spurt

• compensate

extremely bright or colorful

• impressive

• astounded

• vivid

• apparent

No longer in use, not relevant or needed

• obsolete

• sparse

• abolish

• sever

A defender, protector, or keeper

• hearty

• bungle

• anxious

• guardian

Very few or thinly scattered

• exasperate

• ressembled

• sparse

• frigid

To interrupt

• intercept

• escalate

• courteous

• perished

A burst of activity

• immense

• sluggish

• budge

• spurt

The enemy of the hero, a person who is opposed to something

• kinship

• antagonist

• moral

• guardian