Definitions
tending to attract attention; marked by being fancy or over the top
What is flamboyant?
Abuela told me she was tired as she looked back at the _____________ dressed man.
What is impeccably?
Family
What is clan?
Aunt Tuti started ____________ her arms, and my mom kept shaking her head while watching Abuela happily chat with a couple.
What is flailing?
crowd or pack to capacity
What is cram?
What is flail?
She looked happiest when the entire Zamora _______ crammed itself into La Cocina.
What is clan?
Stuff
What is cram?
As the official orientation __________ to Sunday Family Dinner at La Cocina de la Isla, I'd like to welcome the Sanchez family!
What is liaison?
a starchy banana-like fruit
What is a plantain?
tall and thin and having long slender limbs
What is lanky?
This was not the ________ mutant-fast cheetah girl I used to play tag with years ago.
What is lanky?
Shade
What is hue?
She looked happiest when the entire Zamora clan _________ themselves into La Cocina.
What is crammed?
large vase that usually has a pedestal or feet
What is an urn?
light up or make brighter
What is illuminate?
I didn't know what to do, and if it weren't for Aunt Tuti, I might have been caught in a ____________ of my own confusion and despair.
What is vortex?
Perfect
What is impeccable?
I followed her and took in the mostly dark lot that was ______________ by one streetlamp on the far corner.
What is illuminated?
laugh at with contempt and derision
What is scoff?
an instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity
What is a gauge?
Every bright __________ imaginable covered every inch of the interior.
What is hue?
Representative
What is liaison?
"Huh?" is all I could __________.
What is muster?
a series of ordered groupings within a system
What is hierarchy?