Words III

Question 1

swot

Answer 1

n. a person who studies hard, esp. one regarded as spending too much time studying.

Question 2

teeter

Answer 2

v. move or balance unsteadily

Question 3

timid

Answer 3

n. showing lack of courage or confidence; easily frightened.

Question 4

tongs

Answer 4

n. an instrument with two moveable arms that are jojned at one end, used for picking up and holding things.

Question 5

trestle

Answer 5

structure to support a makeshift desk (“BURRO”)

Question 6

tussle

Answer 6

n. a vigorous struggle or scuffle, typically to obtain something.

Question 7

twitch

Answer 7

n. a short, sudden jerking or convulsive movement

Question 8

upbraid

Answer 8

v. to express displeasure or criticism at length (more justified than scold) and to encourage better behavior in the future.

Question 9

wheeze

Answer 9

v. breathe with a whistling or rattling sound in the chest. Make an irregular rattling or spluttering sound

Question 10

whiff

Answer 10

n. a smell that is only smelled briefly or faintly.

Question 11

wily

Answer 11

skilled at gaining an advantage, especially deceitfully.

Question 12

woad

Answer 12

n. A yellow-flowered European plant of the cabbage family. It was formerly grown as a source of blue dye

Question 13

wrack

Answer 13

v.cause intense pain, subject to extreme stress (nerve wracking)

Question 14

wring

Answer 14

v. to extract a liquid by squeezing and twisting. To obtain with great difficulty.

Question 15

wroth

Answer 15

adj. (archaic) angry

Question 16

dock

Answer 16

v. deduct (esp. an amoun of money), cut short.

Question 17

tantamount

Answer 17

adj. equivalent in seriousness to, virtually the equivalent of.