Monkey's Paw Vocab

Doughty

• introvert

• ansxious

• cowardly

• brave and persistent

Proffered

• To hold out for acceptance; to offer

• to beg

• to plead

• to persevere

Maligned

• ignore

• mistake

• Evil in nature

• well mannered

Dubiously

• clearly and confidently
• Hesitating or doubting

• without a doubt
• in a certain manner

Greedy for wealth

• Rapacious
• Covetous
• Avaricious
• giving

Easily believing that something is real/true

• Credulity

• skeptical
• naive
• gullible

Showing or feeling no interest, enthusiasm, or concern

• passionate
• indifferent
• zealous
• Apathetically

A series of shots made at once

• Fusillade

• singular

• instant

• strike

The echo of a loud noise repeated several times

• resonance
• amplification
• magnification
• Reverberated