Number the Stars Ch. 13-End Vocab

stumbled or tripped

• subsided

• latticed

• faltered

• donned

to move backward involuntarily, as in pain, embarrassment, or distress

• donned

• winced

• permeated

• subsided

great in size, amount, degree, intensity

• withering

• deprivation

• brusque

• vast

to put something on (typically clothing)

• donned

• latticed

• winced

• subsided

overlapping strips of wood in a pattern

• strident

• taut

• latticed

• subsided

a loose outer garment (piece of clothing)

• cloak

• donned

• bleak

• strident

active in forming realistic images

• brusque

• vivid

• caustic

• warily

rudely short in actions or speech; blunt

• taut

• vast

• brusque

• vivid

to lengthen in time

• subsided

• permeated

• tantalize

• prolong

to excite someone by showing them what they want but keeping it out of their reach

• tantalize

• prolong

• taut

• caustic