Junior English Vocab List 5

Front 1

Abreast adv.

Back 1

D. Side by side and facing the same way

E. The three of them walked abreast along a narrow road consisting of no more than two bare strips of dirt in the grass.

Front 2

Brash adj.

Back 2

D. vulgarly self assertive; hasty; rash

E. The demon lord was brash, aggressive – and almost always honest, until it came time to deal.

Front 3

Lolled (loll) v.

Back 3

D. sit, lie, or stand in a lazy, relaxed way

E. She lolled her head back and closed her eyes.

Front 4

Abolitionist n.

Back 4

D. a person who favors the doing away with a practice or institution

E. His services as an abolitionist pioneer are recorded in Clarkson's History of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade.

Front 5

Speculate v.

Back 5

D. to form a theory or conjecture about a subject without firm evidence

E. I won't speculate on what that size is, but it certainly is not a size 0.

Front 6

Solemn adj.

Back 6

D. formal, serious; not cheerful

E. The solemn moment was broken with a snicker that went around the room.

Front 7

Bygones n.

Back 7

D. a thing dating from an earlier time.

E. In all these his work belongs mainly to the style and idiom of a bygone generation: they are monuments, not landmarks, and their beauty and invention seem rather to close an epoch than to inaugurate its successor.

Front 8

Lament(ed) v.

Back 8

D. to mourn ( a loss or death)

E. He was lamented by a large circle of friends.

Front 9

Pensive adj.

Back 9

D. reflecting; in serious thought

E. Seeing human-Deidre left him pensive, not entirely certain what to do about his own mate.

Front 10

Disposition n.

Back 10

D. a tendency to act in a specified way

E. Their disposition was to leave the Chinese in unmolested possession of the plain.