Lesson 12 Vocabulary Words

A fancy or showy motion; a dramatic sweeping movement

• brawny

• flourish

• ransack

• mar

To search thoroughly through

• ransack

• agony

• ferocious

• hearsay

Never agreeable; difficult to deal with

• ferocious

• mar

• impartial

• cantankerous

Fair; not taking one side or the other

• opaque

• audible

• impartial

• texture

Heard or capable of being heard

• audible

• decade

• hearsay

• adequate

Savagely cruel; extremely fierce or violent

• ferocious

• opaque

• flourish

• brawny

A ten-year period

• mar

• opaque

• decade

• exquiste

The surface qualities of something; the way something feels to the touch

• mar

• adequate

• impartial

• texture

To damage, to keep from being perfect

• hearsay

• ransack

• mar

• exquiste

Good enough for the situation

• adequate

• brawny

• opaque

• exquiste