Vocabulary Week 1

2. likely to fall or collapse; shaky.
6. full of scorn; derisive; contemptuous.
8. reduced to or fallen into partial ruin or decay.
10. strong displeasure at something considered unjust, offensive, insulting.
13. capable of or susceptible to being wounded or hurt, as by a weapon.
15. style of speaking or writing as dependent upon choice of words.
17. harsh; strident; grating; rowdy.
18. thinly, scattered or distributed.
20. extraordinary in size, amount, extent, degree, force, etc.

1. an apparition of a living person supposed to portend his or her death.
3. an officer of the peace, having police and minor judicial functions.
4. having or seeming to have a supernatural or inexplicable basis.
5. pleasantly calm or peaceful; unruffled; tranquil; quiet or undisturbed.
7. warlike; given to waging war.
9. showing great enthusiasm for or interest in.
11. to run or move quickly or hurriedly.
12. to go with impatient or impetuous, exaggerated movements.
14. evoking or deserving pity; pathetic.
16. lying on the back, face or front upward, passive.
19. contentedly confident of one's ability, superiority, or correctness; complacent.