!VOCABULARY!

Allison Mihalczo

APPARITION

• (n.) a ghost or ghostly figure; an unexplained or unusual appearance.

COWER

• (v.) to crouch or shrink away from in fear or shame.

DISDAIN

• (v.) to look upon with scorn; to refuse scornfully. (n.), a feeling of contempt.

EPITAPH

• (n.) a brief statement written on a tomb or gravestone.

FACETIOUS

• (adj.) humorous, not meant seriously.

ABASHED

• Embarrassed, ashamed, or nonplussed

ALOOF

• Withdrawn, standing apart from others (usually as a matter of choice).

DEFECT

• An imperfection, flaw or blemish of some kind; to desert a cause of organization

PREMONITION

• Forewarning or foreboding of a future event.

SCAPEGOAT

• A person or thing carrying the blame for others.

ACEME

• The highest point.

EXOTIC

• Foreign; charmingly unfamiliar or strikingly unsual.

JAUNTY

• Lively, easy, and carefree in manner; smart or trim in appearance.

STANCE

• A way of holding the body; an attitude or position on an issue.

ATTIRE

• Clothes, apparel, garb;

• To dress, adorn, or bedeck

CRONY

• A very close friend, pal, chum, buddy.

CRYPTIC

• Puzzling, mystifying, or enigmatic.

ENMITY

• Hatred, ill-willing.

GAUNT

• Thin and bony, starved looking; bare, barren