Roll of Thunder Vocabulary

meticulously

• in a fussy or finicky manner

• urged to a duty; reminded

• in a dreamy or thoughtful manner

• in a gloomy or ill-humored manner

admonished

• in an evil manner

• calm and peaceful

• urged to duty; reminded

• filled or overcome with horror or fear; dismayed

pensively

• pretended; sham

• in a dreamy or thoughtful manner

• calm and peaceful

• a fragment or scrap

morosely

• in a gloomy or ill-humored manner

• unapproachable

• at a distance, especially in feeling or interest

• calm and peaceful

dubious

• urged in duty; reminded

• having or seeming to have no end

• to force someone to leave

• of uncertain outcome; doubtful

appalled

• in a victorious or successful manner

• to force someone to leave a place

• filled or overcome with horror or fear; dismayed

• in a fussy or finicky manner

inaccessible

• in an evil manner

• unapproachable

• in a deeply respectful manner

• to force someone to leave a place

careened

• having or seeming to have no end

• pretended; sham

• calm and peaceful

• to go forward quickly without control

adamantly

• in an insistent or unyielding manner

• in a snobbish manner

• in a deeply respectful manner

• in a drowsy or sluggish manner

precariously

• a fragment or scrap

• pretended; sham

• in an uncertain or insecure manner

• in a lonely manner, without signs of life.