grade 11_The Orphaned Swimming Pool

drought

• An overpowering feeling of joy and happiness

• To grow or develop rapidly

• To move easily and effortlessly

• A long period of dry weather

whimsical

• Tricked or deceived

• Lazy and relaxed

• Unpredictable or amusingly strange

• To start a legal case against sb to claim money from the person in compensation for damages

doleful

• Sorrowful; mournful; in low spirits

• Able to float and rise

• A person escaping from the law, police, danger

• Awkward

buoyant

• Silent and bad tempered

• To gain, achieve or win

• Able to float and rise

• Having many creases or folds

supple

• To come out or appear from inside

• To decrease greatly in amount or supply of

• Silent and bad tempered

• Moving easily and gracefully

forbidding

• Looking unfriendly or threatening

• To remain for a time instead of leaving

• Having many creases or folds

• Unpredictable or amusingly strange

ticklish

• Tricked or deceived

• Delicate and difficult

• To give a slight or delicate colour (to)

• Lazy and relaxed

emerge

• To grow or develop rapidly

• To move easily and effortlessly

• To come out or appear from inside

• Boyfriends or frequent male companions

cumbersomely

• (Of place) sad and without people

• Silent and bad tempered

• Looking unfriendly or threatening

• Awkwardly

A person escaping from the law, police, danger

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