Ch. 4 Vocab for Of Mice and Men

beat, battered, or tore at a person or animal

• aloof

• meager

• mauled

• averted

uninvolved with people or events; remote

• aloof

• fawning

• brutally

• disarming

unsatisfactorily small; unsatisfying

• scornful

• indignation

• meager

• liniment

a pain-relieving cream or ointment

• indignation

• mauled

• appraised

• liniment

attempting to please with flattery

• averted

• aloof

• fawning

• crestfallen

charming; friendly or trusting

• averted

• appraised

• disarming

• crestfallen

feeling or expressing great contempt for someone or something

• scornful

• brutally

• liniment

• indignation

in an unrelentingly harsh or cruel way

• appraised

• brutally

• mauled

• scornful

anger about an unfairness or wrongdoing

• aloof

• averted

• indignation

• disarming

turned away

• appraised

• averted

• meager

• fawning