number the stars vocabulary ch.14-end

Vocabulary Words in Ch. 14-END

Warily Intently TantalizeBrusque Withering StridentCaustic Smuggle IdealLatticed Concealed DinHastilyDevastating AmidDeprivation InsolentlyExecuteTaut

What is another word for pulled or drawn tight?

Taut

What is another word for overwhelmingly painful or agonizing?

Devastating

What is another word for cautiously?

Warily

What is another word for surrounded by?

Amid

What is another word for hidden?

Concealed

What is another word for in an insulting manner?

Insolently

What is another word for firmly fixed; concentrated?

Intently

What is another word for making light of?

Withering

What is another word for constructed or furnished with a decorative motif that resembles a patterned

framework?

Latticed

What is another word for to excite another by exposing something desirable while keeping it out of reach?

Tantalize

What is another word for the absence, loss, or withholding of something needed?

Deprivation

What is another word for abrupt and curt in manner or speech?

Brusque

What is another word for loud, harsh, grating, or shrill?

Strident

What is another word for to put to death?

Execute

What is another word for harsh or corrosive in tone?

Caustic

What is another word for a loud, harsh, or strident noise?

Din

What is another word for done or made too quickly to be accurate or wise?

Hastily

What is another word for an honorable or worthy principle or aim?

Ideal

What is another word for to import or export secretly and illegally?

Smuggle