Verbs I
This is another word for "to joke."
What is to jest?
When something causes you to remember something from the past, it __________________s.
What is to hearken?
This wall is defensive.
What is a rampart?
This look requires a sidelong glance, and it gives off a very mean vibe.
What is a leer?
This adjective means characterized by threatening wildness or to be reared up.
What is rampant?
This action requires drawing out a knife or dagger from its scabbard.
What is to unsheath?
If you did something wrong, but you make up for it, removing the cause of complaint and set things right, you have done this action.
What is to redress?
This can be just a sound or it can be spoken words.
What is an utterance?
These hidden places are created by deep indentations in, for example, walls and caves, and they are very secluded.
What are recesses?
This word is not an adjective. It means lying at the top; to prevail (be the best, overcome others).
What is to surmount?
If you secretly depart, you do this.
What is to abscond?
When you are not active or when you are resting, you are doing this.
What is to repose?
This act of violence includes death by setting on fire.
What is immolation?
This expressive gesture shows strong feeling, especially in an argument.
What is gesticulation?
This adjective means seriously affected (as by a disease).
What is "afflicted?"
This verb means "to cause to be."
What is to render?
If you proceed even when there is danger, you have done this action.
What is to venture?
This person is very skilled at playing an instrument or some other artistic pursuit.
What is a virtuoso?
This person understands the details and techniques of a certain “art” and is therefore competent to act as a critical judge of things related to it.
What is a connoisseur ?
This word means intolerable; not to be endured.
What is insufferable?
Someone who makes loud noise insistently does this.
What is to clamor?
This verb means to keep something from happening.
What is to preclude?
Most or all of this superior wine comes from a single year’s harvest of grapes.
What is a vintage?
If you have freedom from or exemption from punishment or harm, you have this.
What is impunity?
The words surprised, astonished, and amazed are synonyms for this adjective.
What is "astounded?"