Reading 8 Unit 4

Front 1

Earnest or strong desire, longing.

Back 1

Yearning

Front 2

Between or among nations.

Back 2

International

Front 3

The skillful planning and management of anything.

Back 3

Strategy

Front 4

A risky or daring undertaking.

Back 4

Venture

Front 5

Fly lightly and quickly; flutter.

Back 5

Flitted

Front 6

Money earned by a company and divided among stockholders.

Back 6

Dividends

Front 7

Period of ten years.

Back 7

Decade

Front 8

Group of related or connected buildings.

Back 8

Complex

Front 9

Desiring things that belong to others.

Back 9

Covetousness

Front 10

Careless and lavish spending; wastefulness.

Back 10

Extravagance

Front 11

An involuntary action in response to stimulation.

Back 11

Reflex

Front 12

The brim of a cap to shade the eyes.

Back 12

Visor

Front 13

Secretly;. slyly

Back 13

Stealthily

Front 14

Full of meaning; important; of consequence.

Back 14

Significant

Front 15

Very large; huge; vast.

Back 15

Immense

Front 16

impossible to explain or understand.

Back 16

impenatriable

Front 17

use of argument; reasoning

Back 17

logic

Front 18

To give or let have unwillingly.

Back 18

grudging

Front 19

Very thin and bony; with hollow eyes and a starved look.

Back 19

Gaunt

Front 20

To find out by adding subtracting multiplying or dividing compact.

Back 20

calculate

Front 21

To take hold suddenly grasp

Back 21

seize

Front 22

to enjoy the taste or smell of; enjoy very much.

Back 22

savoring

Front 23

quiet calm, serious

Back 23

sedately

Front 24

having little enthusiasm or interest not cordial

Back 24

coolly

Front 25

walk heavly: trudge

Back 25

plodded

Front 26

scanty, not enough

Back 26

skimpy

Front 27

unfavorable; threatening

Back 27

ominous

Front 28

a forewarning

Back 28

premonition

Front 29

a great misfortune such as a flood, fire, ect.

Back 29

calamity

Front 30

a deep irrational fear of a certain thing

Back 30

phobia

Front 31

completely different, exactly opposite to what has been said.

Back 31

contrary

Front 32

person in actual possession of a house.

Back 32

occupants

Front 33

being next to or in counteract with.

Back 33

adjoining

Front 34

dangerous

Back 34

perilous

Front 35

a covering fixed over a bed

Back 35

canopy

Front 36

to flood or overflow

Back 36

deluge

Front 37

sharp biting smell

Back 37

pungent

Front 38

make an effort; try hard

Back 38

endeavor

Front 39

set free from entanglements

Back 39

extricate

Front 40

place in a tomb; bury

Back 40

entombed

Front 41

person quality of a fault or crime

Back 41

culprit

Front 42

To throw up or vomit.

Back 42

Regugitate

Front 43

Quetioning, baffled, odd; comical.

Back 43

Quizzical

Front 44

person who is calm and resonable under hard conditonns, accepting life and making the best of it.

Back 44

Philosopher

Front 45

Writer of essays

Back 45

essayist

Front 46

bitterly sarcastic, sconful; mocking.

Back 46

sardonic

Front 47

With a sudden incilnation or tendency to act.

Back 47

Impulsively

Front 48

Dislike very much; hate.

Back 48

Detested

Front 49

of inferior quality; shabby.

Back 49

Shoddy

Front 50

put in little by little; to cause to enter the mind, heart gradually.

Back 50

instilled

Front 51

mental strain; strained condition.

Back 51

tension

Front 52

Put back in former position or condition.

Back 52

reinstated.

Front 53

a defensive pen or barrier made of large strong post.

Back 53

stockade

Front 54

spicy,fragrant

Back 54

aromatic

Front 55

talk in a foolish way; babble

Back 55

prattling

Front 56

not able to be account for or explained

Back 56

unaccountable

Front 57

silenced for the moment by fear, surprise , shyness.

Back 57

dumbly

Front 58

rough; coarse

Back 58

crude

Front 59

a ruined lonely or deserted condition.

Back 59

desolation

Front 60

lay waste; destroy; ravage.

Back 60

devastated

Front 61

a sever test or experience.

Back 61

ordeal

Front 62

right to approach enter or use.

Back 62

access