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READING - vocabulary (Blight) (an.reading-vocabulary.doc)

Archfiend – worst enemy

Achievement – something important that you achieve; when you succeed in doing or getting what you have worked for

Awe – wonder, amazement

Arrow-head – the point of an arrow

Brag – to talk too proudly about what you have done or own

Bullying – to frighten someone or threaten to hurt them, especially if they are weaker or smaller than you, someone who uses their strength or power to frighten or hurt others

Benediction – blessing, a prayer for God’s good wishes

Blight - destroy

Bowed with grief – carrying great sadness

Beaded bag – decorated leather bag used by Indians mainly for medicine

Bangle – a solid band of metal, wood etc. that you wear around your wrist

Bundle – a group of things such as paper, clothes that are fastened or tied together; to collect things in to a bundle

Beaded – a small round ball of plastic, glass usually used for making jewellery; a small drop of liquid such as water or blood

Bow – to bend your head or the top part of your body forward; the front part of a ship; a band of cloth or string tied in two circles used as a decoration or when tying shoes; a weapon used for shooting arrows made of a long curved piece of wood held by a tight string; a thing that you use for playing instruments such as the violin which consists of a piece of wood with horsehair attached to it

Account – a written or spoken description of an event or situation; an arrangement that allows you to keep your money in a bank and take amounts from it when you want to; to consider particular facts when making a decision about something; an arrangement with a shop that allows you to buy goods and pay for them later; to be a particular amount or part of something; to give a reason for something that happened

Blue collar - a term used in the USA for what some refer to as the working class. A blue-collar worker is differentiated from white-collar and service employees, in that the blue-collar worker earns an hourly wage (as opposed to the white-collar salary) and performs manual labour (as opposed to the service-industry worker). Blue collar may involve factory work, building and construction trades, law enforcement, mechanical work, maintenance or technical installations. The white-collar worker, by contrast, performs non-manual labour often in an office; and the service industry worker performs non-manual labour involving customer interaction, entertainment, retail sales, and the like. Some service industry workers differ as they perform tasks that are mostly unskilled in the service sector. Burst – short sudden period of activity or noise; broken or torn apart violently; suddenly, very much

Bowler hats – hats with a rounded top

Boisterous – noisy and cheerful

Caressed – touched affectionately

Cowered – bent down low from fear so no one would see

Clutch – to hold something tightly; if you are in the clutches of someone powerful or dangerous, they control or influence you

Curiously – wanting to know or learn about something; strange of unusual

Cupped – to form your hands into the shape of a cup

Collar – the part of a shirt, dress that fits around your neck; a leather band fastened around an animal’s neck

Creaked – made a squeaking noise like old wood

Clench – close your hand or your mouth tightly, especially because you are angry

Contemporary – belonging to the present time, existing in the same period of time

Cree – a Native American people inhabiting a large area from eastern Canada west to Alberta and the Great Slave Lake. Formerly located in central Canada, the Cree expanded westward and eastward in the 17th and 18th centuries, the western Cree adopting the Plains Indian life and the eastern Cree retaining their woodland culture

Crept=creep – to move very carefully, slowly and quietly so that no one will notice you; to gradually begin to appear; someone who you dislike a lot

Comrade – a friend especially someone who fights with you in a war; someone in a left-wing country

Curls – small pieces of something, especially hair, that forms a curved shape; to form a curved shape or to make something do this

Crouch – to lower your body close to the ground by bending your knees and back

Counter – long table in a shop, behind which the shop assistant stands

Despair – a feeling of being very unhappy or without hope

Descend – the process of going down; your family origins especially the country you came from

Defeated – to win against someone, to make something or someone fail, when someone losses a game, battle, election

Dropped – to let something you are holding fall to the ground

Depict – show someone or something in a story or picture

Dulcet cadence – sweet romantic music

Emerged – appear or come out of somewhere, to become known, to come to the end of a difficult situation

Encouragements – to try to persuade someone to do something, especially by making them more confident; to make it easier for something to happen

Exhortation – to try to persuade someone to do something

Eccentric – bizarre, kookie

Faltered – hesitated, spoke uncertainly

Factor – merchant or agent

Fair-haired – hair that is light in colour

Foothill – one of the low hills at the bottom of a group of mountains

Furs – the thick soft hair that covers the bodies of some animals, using especially for making clothes

Fugitive – someone who has escaped and is trying to avoid being caught, especially by the police

Feverish – to have a fever; done extremely quickly because the situation is urgent; very excited of worried

Flint – a type of very hard stone that makes a small flame when you strike it with steel

Feisty – having a strong determined character and a lot of energy

Fortified himself with – comforted himself with

Flexible – adapts easily

Gripping – to hold something very tightly, to have a strong effect, to stay without sliding

Gaze – stare; look at someone or something for a long time

Gifted – having a natural ability to do something very well, or a very intelligent child

Gash – a deep cut in something

Grief – extreme sadness especially when someone you love has died

Grab – take hold of something with force

Hilarious – extremely funny

Haze - Atmospheric moisture, dust, smoke, and vapor that diminishes visibility; vague or confused state of mind

Huns – an abusive name given to the Germans during the WWI

Hitch-hike – to travel by asking for free rides in other people’s cars

Hoarsely – a horse voice sounds rough as if the person speaking has a sore throat

High-achiever – somebody who aims for access

Hideous – extremely ugly and unpleasant

Homesickness – feeling sad because you are a long way from your home

Charity – an organization that gives money or help to people who need them; money of gifts given to people who need help

Cheerful – happy and showing this by your behaviour; bright, pleasant and making you feel happy

Instant – happening immediately; food in the form of powder; a moment

I was suspected – it was thought I might be guilty

Insight – the ability to understand something clearly or an example of this

Issue – a subject or problem; a magazine printed for a particular day of week; to officially make a statement or give an order, a warning

Insecure – not feeling confident about yourself, your abilities; not save or not protected

Kinsman - relative

Lad – a boy or young man

Loquacious – someone who likes to talk a lot with every body about everything

Long for – desire strongly

Lodge – home, dwelling

Lurk – to wait somewhere secretly, usually before doing something bad

Mackintoshes – raincoats

Mutter – to speak in a low quiet voice which is difficult to hear, especially when you are complaining about something

Mistress – a woman that a married man has a sexual relationship with

Merely – and nothing more, just, only; something is exactly what you say with no hidden meanings, used to emphasize that something or someone is very small or unimportant

Moll – a gangster mate

Moving – able to move, making you feel strong emotions

Neglect – to overlook, not to care about someone

Oddly – in a strange or unusual way; used when something seems strange or surprising

Observant – good at noticing things

Ooze – liquid flows from something slowly; very soft mud especially at the bottom of a river

Pale – having a white skin colour, especially when you are ill or frightened; something light coloured; to seem less important or good when compared to something else

Pile – a lot of similar things put one on top of the other; a lot of something; to make a pile by collecting things together; to fill or cover something with a lot of something

Pace – the speed at which something happens or at which you do something; to walk around a lot when you are waiting or when you are worried about something

Prediction – a statement saying what you expect to happen

Prairie – wide area of flat grassland

Peculiar – strange and a little surprising, especially in an unpleasant way; to be a quality that only one person, place or thing has

Pious – having strong religious beliefs and showing this in the way you behave

Pompous – trying to make people think you are important, especially by using a lot of formal words

Peer – someone at the same age o frank in social appears

Persuasiveness – good at influencing other people to believe or do what you want

Pagan – someone who lives with the beliefs and customs of the paganism; a religion that does not belong to any of the main world religions and may come from a time before these religions; polytheistic religion; one who follows a religion of European, North African, West Asian or Pre-Columbian American origin and who is not Christian, Muslim nor Jewish, or who does not worship the God of Abraham.

Perceptive – good at noticing and understanding things or how someone is feeling

Rector – priest in charge of a parish

Resemblance – a similarity between two people or things

Remonstrating – protesting, arguing

Rollicking – noisy and full of humour

Revered – respected greatly

Riveted – fixed, concentrated

Run-down – raze, destroyed

Retiring – shy and not wanting to be with other people

Snore – to breathe during sleep with harsh, snorting noises caused by vibration of the soft palate

Slender – thin in an attractive way

Subservience – too willing to do what other people want you to do

Sums – an amount of money; simple calculation; the total when you add more things together; to end a discussion or speech by giving the main information about it in a short statement; to form an opinion about something  

Serpent – a snake

Stretch – to become bigger or looser as a result of being pulled; an area of land or water; to spread out over a large area; to continue for a long period; to use as much of a supply of something s is available without having enough for anything else; the action of stretching part of your body

Shuddered – to shake because you are frightened or cold or because you think something is very unpleasant; shake suddenly

Spasmodically – occasionally, not regularly

Shiftless – change opinion or attitude, move something from one place to another, move your body, the period when workers do they work

Shifty – someone who is shifty looks as if they can not be trust

Solace – comfort or happiness after you have been very sad or upset

Sprawling – spread in a negative meaning

Semi-derelict – unoccupied, a building in a bad condition because it has not been used for a long time

Sweep – to clean the dirt from the floor by brushing; to move quickly of spread; to completely destroy something; to push or move something in a particular direction with a brushing movement

Slipped – sneaked, moved like a snake

Started – spoke suddenly with surprise

Saints – holy people

Shuddered – trembled, shook

Thinning – if your hair is thinning, some of it has fallen out

Truant – a student who stays away from school without permission

Temples – buildings where people in some religions go to pray

Tepee – round tent used by some Native Americans

Throat – the front of the neck

Tough – difficult, hard, strong, very strict, not easily broken, an area where is a lot of violence and crime

Tan – having a darker skin

Taunt – stretched tight

Trapper - someone who sets traps for animals usually to obtain their furs

Trashy – of extremely bad quality

Tights – a piece of generally girl’s or women’s clothing, fits closely around the feet and legs and up to the waist; a similar garment designed for athletic use

Tossed – to throw something in a careless way; if you decide something by a toss of a coin

Uncanny – very strange and difficult to explain

Undecided – you have not made a decision about something

Uttered – complete or extreme; especially literary to say something

Venerable – deserving respect because of age or position

Vanish – to disappear suddenly, especially in a way that cannot be easily explained

Venom – poison produced by some snakes

Whimper – to make low crying sounds because you are in pain or very sad

Woe – great sadness

Wound up – very angry nervous or excited

Wee – very small or in spoken E. a word meaning to urinate used by children

Worshiped – loved deeply and respected

Wound itself about me like the coils of a serpent – wrapped around me like the twisting body of a snake

Warehouse – large building to store large quantities of goods

Wrist – the joint between your hand and your arm

Wraith – a sort of ghost