Vocabulary: Fall List #5

1. Venomous:(of a person or their behavior) full of malice or spite. The zookeepers were very cautious when feeding the venomous snake. 2. Stolid:(of a person) calm, dependable, and showing little emotion or animation. The stolid child 3. Hypnotized: capture the whole attention of (someone); fascinate. The performer hypnotized the crowd with his amazing performance. 4. Suspended:temporarily prevent from continuing or being in force or effect. The actor was cleverly suspended to make the audience believe he was flying 5. Transformed: make a thorough or dramatic change in the form, appearance, or character of. Practice completely transformed the athlete’’s performance. 6. Accuse: charge (someone) with an offense or crime. The innocent man was falsely accused of murder. 7. Anticipate: regard as probable; expect or predict. Christians anticipate the return of Jesus Christ. 8. Fringe: an ornamental border of threads left loose or formed into tassels or twists, used to edge clothing or material. The fringe had finally ripped of my favorite sweater. 9. Melancholy: a feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause. Rainy days are usually when i feel melancholic. 10. Earnestly: fervent, intent, purposeful, determined, industrious, ambitious. He earnestly went to the gym. 11. Dissolve: become or cause to become incorporated into a liquid so as to form a solution. The sugar completely dissolved into the coffee. 12. Aggravate: make (a problem, injury, or offense) worse or more serious. The speed bumps aggravated the broken leg while in the ambulance. 13. Illuminate: light up. The enormous lights illuminated the football stadium. 14. Capillary: any of the fine branching blood vessels that form a network between the arterioles. Capillary bleeding is a general oozing from a raw surface. 15. Proboscis: the nose of a mammal, especially when it is long and mobile, such as the trunk of an elephant or the snout of a tapir. The elephant injured his proboscis while running into a wall.