The Veldt VOCABULARY

thought of

• sedative

• conceived

• reluctant

• appalled

something given off

• irrational distrust

• peculiarity

• emanation

• neurotic

became less intense

• subsided

• persecuted

• twinge

• intersperse

flat, rural African grassland

• pelt

• tapestry

• glade

• veldt

short pleasure trip

• twinge

• jaunt

• flue

• spoor

open space in a forest

• veldt

• agate

• pelt

• glade

emotionally unstable

• engrossed

• neurotic

• reluctant

• recede

shocked; offended

• jovial

• conceived

• appalled

• hysterical

totally absorbed in thought

• engrossed

• peculiar

• clinical

• twinge

scatter here and there

• bemused

• spoor

• intersperse

• emanate