Reading Vocabulary

in fear of or dread of possible evil or harm

• aptitude

• apprehensive

• attentive

• vigilant

inherent ability or skill

• banishment

• falter

• debris

• aptitude

to frighten someone by pretending to be stronger than one is

• brackish

• bluff

• dismal

• counter

to speak in response to

• cunning

• contortion

• counter

• pertinent

skilled in deception

• counter

• cunning

• muster

• quell

narrate means to

• give a detailed account or tell a story

• not clearly understood or expressed

• outlandish

• threatening evil or tragic developments

to gather or bring together

• pertinent

• quell

• impending

• muster

moving hesitantly as if about to give away

• foresight

• falter

• engross

• cunning

causing gloom or dejection; gloomy; dreary; cheerless; melancholy:

• disdain

• falter

• dismal

• bluff

close in time or about to occur

• impending

• dismal

• pertinent

• counter