Vocabulary

1. walk through water or another liquid or soft substance.
3. (especially of a muscle or someone's body) stretched tight or rigid.
6. move with a curving trajectory.
7. having or showing a tendency to be easily annoyed or made angry.
9. an elongated seed vessel of a leguminous plant such as the pea, splitting open on both sides when ripe.
11. make (someone) lose their sense of direction.
13. the feeling of sorrow and compassion caused by the suffering and misfortunes of others.
14. an educational talk to an audience, especially to students in a university or college.
16. a painful feeling of humiliation or distress caused by the consciousness of wrong or foolish behavior.

2. cause (someone) to feel consternation and distress.
4. a machine or device that appears strange or unnecessarily complicated, and often badly made or unsafe.
5. (of a boat, sailor, or sea creature) left aground on a shore.
8. the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.
10. a long speech by one actor in a play or movie, or as part of a theatrical or broadcast program.
12. a sudden strong and unreflective urge or desire to act.
15. rough or loose in texture or grain.