This document defines and provides examples for 8 words: bewildered means confused and unable to understand; evasive means trying to avoid answering; mull means thinking through possible solutions; startle means surprising someone from behind; distrust means not being honest; witness means seeing an event and telling about it; lock means a group of hairs that hang together; and beneath means under something.

1. bewildered Confused and unable to understand something.

2. evasive Someone tries to avoid answering a question.

3. mull Think through possible solutions to a problem or the answer to a question.

4. startle Someone who comes up quietly behind you and surprises you.

5. distrust When someone is not honest with you, you might distrust that person.

6. witness If someone sees an event and tells about it, that person is a witness.

7. lock A group of hairs that hang together.

8. beneath If you stand under a tree, you are standing beneath that tree.