If you have not handed in the Chapter 5 questions and quote, you must do so. Also, make sure your Chapter 3 and 4 cartoons are in.
Here are all the vocabulary words:
- sombre (adj): sober/serious; dull
- tirade (n): a long angry speech of criticism
- enmity (n): hatred
- hiatus (n): a pause or gap
- astern (adv): the back of a boat
- tumult (n): chaos/turmoil
- decorous (adj): gracious/polite
- interminable (adj): unending/ceaseless
- ebullience (n): bubbly joy; cheer
- festooned (v): decorated/adorned/draped with a garland
- recriminations (n): accusations in response to another’s accusations of wrongdoing
- inscrutable (adj): impenetrable
- heed (v): to pay careful attention to something
- vicissitudes (n): unexpected changes or conditions
- contrite (adj): feeling sorrow or regret
- tacit (adj): implied or believed without being spoken aloud
- furtive (adj): secret or hidden
- loom (v): to appear in shadowy form; to hover in a threatening manner; to seem to be on the verge of happening
- discount (v): to ignore or to doubt
- detritus (n): any disintegrated material or debris
- malevolently (adv): doing something with ill will or intent
- atavistic (adj): characterized by reverting back to something ancient or primitive
- taboo (adj): forbidden; something that goes against the standards of a society
- sinewy (adj): lean and muscular
- reverence (n): a deep feeling of respect
- lamentation (n): an audible expression of deep grief and sorrow
- mimicry (n): the act of imitating someone’s speech or behavior
- taut (adj): pulled tight
- emphatic (adj): strongly expressive in speech or action
- diffidently (adv): lacking confidence in one’s own ability
- leviathan (n): anything of immense size and power
- mutinously(adv): with a feeling of rebellion
