Vocabulary 8 Unit 13

twisted, turned to one side; cleverly and often grimly humorous

• wry

• foreboding

• plunder

• adapt

a person(usually a child) without a home or friend; a stray person or animal; something that comes along by chance, a stray bit

• haughty

• waif

• falter

• attest

to abuse or belittle unjustly or maliciously

• enormity

• dovetail

• vilify

• simper

much boasted about in a vain or swaggering way

• imperative

• pithy

• loiter

• vaunted

firmly fixed; constant, not moving or changing

• steadfast

• plunder

• malinger

• impediment

to smile or speak in a silly, forced way; a silly, forced smile

• foreboding

• simper

• falter

• plunder

to rob by force, especially during wartime; to seize wrongfully; property stolen by force

• forlorn

• pithy

• plunder

• attest

a warning or feeling that something bad will happen; marked by fear, ominous

• forlorn

• diminish

• foreboding

• loiter

to hesitate, stumble, lose courage; to speak hesitatingly; to lose drive, weaken, decline

• enormity

• foreboding

• attest

• falter

the quality of exceeding all moral bounds; an exceedingly evil act; huge size, immensity

• enormity

• plunder

• haughty

• pithy