Vocabulary and Definitions Assessment

extreme pain of body or mind

• anguished

• elated

• calm

• indifferent

move as though weighed down

• lumbered

• skipped

• danced

• glided

to view or consider with continued attention

• pondered

• contemplated

• ignored

• dismissed

joint, connection

• junction

• juncture

• jointure

• linkage

short, abrupt, harsh

• brusquely

• gently

• slowly

• softly

to utter repeated cries or distress, or complains

• yammered

• screamed

• whispered

• murmured

leaning, resting, lying down

• recumbent

• erect

• sitting

• standing

spotted

• mottled

• striped

• solid

• checkered

having a gloomy disposition

• morosely

• cheerfully

• happily

• brightly

behaving like someone who is in charge

• imperiously

• humbly

• casually

• indifferently