For today, read half of the story “The Devil and Tom Walker.” We will be finishing it tomorrow.
Here is the vocab for the week:
Vocabulary List 9
- Laconic (adj): using few words
- Laggard (n): dawdler, loafer, lazy person
- Magnate (n): a person of great influence; eminent person
- Maladroit (adj): tactless, clumsy
- Nefarious (adj): wicked; immoral; sinful
- Negate (v): to cause to be ineffective; nullify; cancel
- Oblique (adj): indirect, slanting
- Obliterate (v): wipe out completely; destroy all traces of
- Palpitate (v): to pulsate with unusual rapidity from exertion, emotion, etc.; beat rapidly and irregularly
- Panacea (n): a remedy for all diseases or ills
- Qualm (n): sudden feeling of faintness or uneasiness, especially nausea
- Quandary (n): state of doubt or perplexity
- Ramification (n): consequence or implication
- Rancor (n): resentment; animosity; bad feeling
- Salubrious (adj): promoting health or well-being