Westing Game Vocabulary

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Westing Game Vocabulary

• Chapters 13-16

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• Scrumptious- delicious
• Mementoes- objects given as a memory or reminder
  of someone or something
• Pedicure- cosmetic treatment of the feet
• Unattainable- impossible to reach or achieve
• Demeaning- humiliating and degrading
• Elephantine- very large or very great
• Dejectedly- very unhappy because of
  disappointment
• Obsequious- obsessively eager to please and obey
  instructions

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• Peevishly- irritable, bad tempered, complaining
• Remission- slowing of disease or lessening of
  they symptoms of a disease
• Soothsayer- someone who attempts to tell the
  future
• Guffaw- laugh really loudly
• Interrogate- question someone thoroughly
• Jasmine- a scented plant with fragrant flowers

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• Baffled- confused or unable to find the answer
• Harried- to harass or to annoy
• Petrified- To stun or paralyze with terror
• Amends- compensation for a loss, damage, or
  injury
• Amnesia- Partial or total loss of memory
• Despondently- feeling or showing hopelessness,
  dejection, discouragement, or gloom