Monday, October 3, 2016

Vocabulary Fall List #5

1. Venomous - (of animals, especially snakes, or their parts) secreting venom; capable of injecting venom by means of a bite or sting. 
   
2. Stolid - (of a person) calm, dependable, and showing little emotion or animation.

3. Hypnotized - produce a state of hypnosis in (someone)

4. Suspended - temporarily prevent from continuing or being in force or effect.

5. Transformed - make a thorough or dramatic change in the form, appearance, or character of.

6. Accuse - charge (someone) with an offense or crime.

7. Anticipate - regard as probable; expect or predict

8. Fringe - an ornamental border of threads left loose or formed into tassels or twists, used to edge clothing or material.

9. Melancholy - a feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause.

10. Earnestly - fervent, intent, purposeful, determined, industrious, ambitious

11. Dissolve - (with reference to a solid) become or cause to become incorporated into a liquid so as to form a solution.

12. Aggravate -(of an offense) made more serious by attendant circumstances (such as frame of mind).

13. Illuminate -light up.

14. Capillary - any of the fine branching blood vessels that form a network between the arterioles and venules

15. Proboscis - the nose of a mammal, especially when it is long and mobile, such as the trunk of an elephant or the snout of a tapir.

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