Short Story Vocabulary

go or move back or further away from a previous position

• recede

• jaunt

• bemused

• impudent

a short excursion or journey for pleasure

• winced

• vigilance

• jaunt

• notion

in a frenetically excited or energetic manner

• audible

• vague

• insufferable

• feverishly

puzzled, confused or bewildered

• render

• bemused

• insufferable

• agitate

too extreme to bear, intolerable

• insufferable

• vague

• compound

• boisterous

not clearly expressed

• vigilance

• winced

• vague

• notion

a conception of or belief about something

• notion

• agitate

• poignant

• render

a slight grimace or shrinking movement caused by pain or distress

• recede

• winced

• impudent

• audible

the action or state of keeping careful watch for possible danger or difficulties

• vigilance

• hindrances

• audible

• rankness

a thing that provides resistance, delay, or obstruction to something or someone

• jaunt

• hindrances

• compound

• impudent