Shared Flashcard Set

Details

TGE Ch. 11-12
The Good Earth vocab
41
English
10th Grade
03/30/2011
Click here to study/print these flashcards.

Create your own flash cards! Sign up here.

Additional English Flashcards

 

 

Cards

Term
bumpkin
 Definition
a country person
Term
caravan
 Definition
pack of animals
Term
gorge
 Definition
throat
Term
haranguing
 Definition
giving a long speech
Term
haughty
 Definition
scornfully proud
Term
millet
 Definition
a type of grass
Term
perpetual
 Definition
lasting forever
Term
cur
 Definition
cowardly person; an undesireable dog
Term
downtrodden
 Definition
oppressed
Term
indifferently
 Definition
having no interest or concern
Term
leprous
 Definition
relating to the disease leprosy
Term
opulence
 Definition
great abundance
Term
rebuking
 Definition
punishing; scolding
Term
repose
 Definition
being at a state of rest
Term
scythe
 Definition
tool used for cutting
Term
sumptuous
 Definition
suggesting great expense
Term
thrice
 Definition
three times
Term
agape
 Definition
with the mouth open
Term
castrated
 Definition
an animal removed of its sexual organs (testes or ovaries)
Term
contempt
 Definition
treating someone as inferior
Term
cultivate
 Definition
to prepare land for crops
Term
furrow
 Definition
a trench made from a plow
Term
musing
 Definition
engaging in meditation
Term
proverb
 Definition
a widespread saying used to express truth or teaching
Term
shrewish
 Definition
ill-tempered
Term
boisterously
 Definition
loudly
Term
dotard
 Definition
person experiencing mental deterioration
Term
paltry
 Definition
lacking worth
Term
pendulous
 Definition
hanging loosely; swinging
Term
proprietor
 Definition
an owner of a business
Term
reproach
 Definition
to express disparagement
Term
subsist
 Definition
to exist
Term
tendril
 Definition
structure that supports vine-like plants
Term
comfit
 Definition
a sugar-coated pastry
Term
imploringly
 Definition
urgently begging
Term
indolent
 Definition
lazy
Term
loafers
 Definition
people who are habitually idle
Term
prodigally
 Definition
extravagantly wasteful
Term
repine
 Definition
to be discontented; to complain
Term
slavishly
 Definition
having the characteristics of a slave
Term
superintended
 Definition
supervised
Supporting users have an ad free experience!