Title: STUDY: Vocabulary TKaM Chs 23 - end
Course: English 9 (B)

Vocabulary TKaM Chs 23 - end

furtive | adj | stealthy, secretive, shifty, sly | "Exchanging furtive glances, they oozed a nervousness, perhaps in fear that some prewritten script would go awry" (Michael Bloomberg, Bloomberg by Bloomberg). See Word of the Day
sordid | adj | filthy & dirty; foul & squalid; morallly degraded, base | "sordid tales of the celebs' love lives"
squalid | adj | having a dirty or wretched appearance | "squalid conditions in the refugee camp"
brevity | n | briefness; shortness (intime) | "the brevity of the graduation speech was appreciated by the students" / "the brevity of the child's life was mourned at her funeral"
spurious | adj | false; lacking substantiation; forged | "spurious claims"
articulate | adj/v | endowed with the power of speech; expressing oneself in clear & effective language | "an articulate speaker" / "anarticulate essay"
delectable | adj | delightful, greatly pleasing (esp. to the taste); delicious | a delectable witticism; adelectable dinner. See Word of the Day
nondescript | adj | lacking in distinctive qualities | "His nondescript appearance -- blue jeans, Abercrombie & Fitch t-shirt -- made him easy to forget."
florid | adj | ruddy, rosy, or reddish; flowery, excessively ornate, showy | “a florid complexion” “floridwriting”
irascible | adj | easily provoked to anger, very irritable; characterized or produced by ange | “an irascible old man” “anirascible response” Root: ira = anger (the word “ire” has the same root)
teeming | v/adj | swarming; abounding; full of | "a forest teeming with life, both flora & fauna"
pinion | v | to restrain by binding the arms or wings of | “...[He] tried to catch my arms, but they were tightly pinioned.” TKaM