Summer of the Swans Vocabulary

cried loudly or sorrowfully

• wailed

• abruptly

• compulsion

• tremulous

an irresistible impulse to do something; urge; desire

• engulf

• cascade

• compulsion

• permanent

suddenly; unexpectedly; quickly

• flair

• abruptly

• allowed

• waver

shaking; trembling or quavering from fear or nervousness

• tremulous

• raise

• raze

• anguish

enclose; surround; overcome

• hole

• engulf

• course

• raze

fast, downward flow of objects; surge

• ravine

• headlong

• whole

• cascade

a deep, narrow valley, especially one formed by running water

• ravine

• vegetation

• through

• wilderness

extreme pain or distress of body and mind; agony

• suddenly; unexpectedly; quickly

• tremulous

• anguish

• expanse

a wide open space; stretch; vastness

• expanse

• raze

• engulf

• through

to be unsteady; shake; fluctuate; falter

• permanent

• waver

• allowed

• compulsion