1. Vocabulary Quiz Flashcards for Quiz #3 Language Arts | English Mr. Jeffers

2. Directions: If you’re using an iPod, simply scroll through each of the slides to view the vocabulary word first. Then, on the slide following each vocabulary word, you’ll find the definition. Enjoy!

3. Shrew

4. an offensive term for a woman who is regarded as quarrelsome, nagging, or ill- tempered

5. interject

6. interrupt with a comment: to say or insert something in a way that interrupts what is being said or discussed

7. harridan

8. a scolding, vicious woman; hag

9. aloof

10. 1. at a distance, esp. in feeling or interest; apart: They always stood aloof from their classmates. 2. reserved or reticent; indifferent; disinterested: Because of his shyness, he had the reputation of being aloof.

11. circulate

12. 1. to move in a circle or circuit; move or pass through a circuit back to the starting point 2. to pass from place to place, from person to person, etc.: She circulated among her guests.

13. converge

14. 1. meet: to reach the same point coming from different directions the place where the roads converge 2. become same: to become gradually less different and eventually the same

15. expound

16. describe and explain something in in further detail

17. bespectacled

18. with eyeglasses: wearing eyeglasses

19. query

20. 1. a question or inquiry 2. A doubt

21. stoutness

22. bulky in figure; heavily built; corpulent; thickset; fat

23. reiterate

24. to say or do again or repeatedly; repeat, often excessively.

25. beseech

26. to beg urgently; to implore eagerly