Red Badge of Courage vocabulary terms

causing fear, apprehension, or dread of discouraging or awesome strength, size, difficulty, etc.; intimidating

• facetious

• vociferous

• formidable

• perfunctory

boldly rude or disrespectful; contemptuously impertinent rudely, brazenly

• futile

• diffidently

• despondent

• insolently

loud sound, noise, equivalent to clang, ringing, tolling

• zeal

• vociferous

• clangor

• valor

without previous instance; never before known or experienced; unexampled or unparalleled:

• unprecedented

• perfunctory

• careering

• futile

an establishment for producing castings in molten metal. the act or process of founding or casting metal

• paean

• haven

• foundry

• imprecation

the act or instance of saying or pleading in protest, objection, or disapproval argument, protest

• vigilance

• remonstrance

• derision

• zeal

performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial

• vociferous

• perfunctory

• insolently

• unscrupulous

to separate into parts with force or violence

• rend

• careering

• deride

• conciliate

not meant to be taken seriously or literally -foolish, silly

• facetious

• despondent

• futile

• vociferous

to laugh at in scorn or contempt; scoff or jeer at; mock ridicule, disparage

• deride

• careering

• conciliate

• assent