1. Ms. Wummel English 9 Honors Of Mice and Men Vocabulary

2. junctures points of joining

3. mottled marked with spots of different colors

4. stilted artificially formal, stiff, pompous

5. morosely done while being sullen or gloomy

6. imperiously extremely overbearing

7. relish to take great pleasure in

8. mollified soothed, or appeased

9. pugnacious looking for a fight, combative, belligerent

10. ominously threateningly

11. slough to cast off

12. plaintively mournful and expressing sorrow

13. brittle fragile, frail, easily damaged

14. complacently done with the state of being self-satisfied

15. derision scoffing at, mockery, ridicule

16. scuttled sunk (as in ship)

17. reprehensible deserving blame or reprimand

18. bemused confused or bewildered

19. reverently done with honor, regarding with respect

20. appreciation the increase in value

21. aloof apart, indifferent

22. apprehension the seizure, arrest, of taking into custody; the understanding or becoming aware

23. indignation anger as a result of something unjust

24. wisps A small amount of something that is fragile or slight

25. belligerently waging war; inclined to or exhibiting assertiveness

26. monotonous done with a repetitive sameness

27. woodenly something done stiffly or clumsy