Chapter 9-12 Vocab

Requiring or compelling speedy action or attention

• Urgent

• Surge

• Gleam

• Hearse

A strong, wavelike, forward movement, rush, or sweep

• Urgent

• Surge

• Gleam

• Hearse

Shine brightly, especially with reflected light

• Urgent

• Surge

• Gleam

• Hearse

A vehicle taking a dead person to the place of funeral

• Urgent

• Surge

• Gleam

• Hearse

A state of confused and noisy disturbance

• Condescending

• Commotion

• Surge

• Stricken

Full or covered with gnarls; bent; twisted - OR - having a rugged, weather-beaten appearance

• Typhus

• Gleam

• Hearse

• Gnarled

To behave as if one has an attitude from a superior position or rank

• Gleam

• Typhus

• Condescending

• Hearse

Hit or wounded by a weapon, missle, or the like - OR - afflicted, as with disease, trouble, or sorrow

• Hearse

• Stricken

• Mourning

• Urgent

Characterized by performance in which the notes are abruptly disconnected

• Stricken

• Mourning

• Staccato

• Condescending

To grieve or cry due to extreme grief, usually the result of a death

• Hearse

• Stricken

• Condescending

• Mourning