Unit 3: The Pearl- Vocabulary

Question 1

cleft

Answer 1

split

Question 2

escarpment

Answer 2

a steep slope

Question 3

intercession

Answer 3

to intervene between two parties. A prayer or petition in favor of another

Question 4

malignant

Answer 4

to produce an end or death

Question 5

monolithic

Answer 5

whole, one, singular

Question 6

covey

Answer 6

a small flock

Question 7

plaintive

Answer 7

expressive of suffering or woe: melancholy

Question 8

avarice

Answer 8

excessive or unstable desire for wealth or gain: greediness

Question 9

indigent

Answer 9

totally lacking in something specified

Question 10

poultice

Answer 10

a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to lessions or sores

Question 11

undulate

Answer 11

wavy, rise and fall, motion of a wave

Question 12

deft

Answer 12

characterized by facility and skill/ skillful

Question 13

dissembling

Answer 13

to hide under a false appearance, to put on the appearance of

Question 14

furtive

Answer 14

expressive of stealth

Question 15

judicious

Answer 15

having, exercising, or characterized by sound judgement

Question 16

lucent

Answer 16

glowing with light, marked by clarity or translucence

Question 17

subjugation

Answer 17

to bring under control or governance, to make submissive

Question 18

benign

Answer 18

not being significant, gentle, harmless

Question 19

contemptuous

Answer 19

manifesting feeling or expressing deep hatred or disapproval. contempt

Question 20

brooding

Answer 20

unhappy, deep thinking

Question 21

lethargy

Answer 21

abnormal drowsiness

Question 22

edifice

Answer 22

tall building/ structure

Question 23

lament

Answer 23

to mourn

Question 24

apprehensively

Answer 24

showing fear or knowledge/ awareness about something