The Goats Ch. 1-3 Vocab

weak intellectually or morally; physically weak

• feeble

• grated

• smother

• darting

mean, despised, or vile

• bleary

• wailing

• despicable

• sluiced

a sudden swift movement

• dread

• groped

• prying

• darting

to inquire curiously; nosey

• sluiced

• prying

• sidled

• snuffling

pour down a drain

• grated

• feeble

• sluiced

• thicket

to utter a prolonged, inarticulate, mournful cry, usually high-pitched or clear-sounding, as in grief or suffering

• feeble

• bleary

• tattered

• wailing

to whine; snivel

• snuffling

• sluiced

• despicable

• dread

to search or feel around blindly or uncertainly

• tattered

• thicket

• groped

• prying

to move sideways

• groped

• sidled

• wailing

• bleary

ragged, shredded, or torn

• feeble

• tattered

• grated

• dread