Westing Game Vocabuary 1-14

(noun) - a person, business, group, etc., that pays to use another person's property : someone who rents or leases a house, apartment, etc., from a landlord

• tenants

• infirmity

• implication

• contender

(noun) - the act of carefully examining something especially in a critical way : the act of scrutinizing something

• infirmity

• pompous

• scrutiny

• meager

(verb) - to try to solve a problem : to deal with a problem

• putrid

• grapple

• meager

• humiliate

(adjective) - decayed with usually a very bad or disgusting smell

• putrid

• grapple

• meager

• humiliate

(adjective) - not having enough of something (such as money or food) for comfort or happiness

• putrid

• grapple

• meager

• humiliate

(adjective) - having or showing the attitude of people who speak and behave in a very formal and serious way because they believe that they are better, smarter, or more important than other people

• eccentric

• pompous

• scrutiny

• humiliate

(noun) - the quality or state of being weak or ill

• eccentric

• infirmity

• scrutiny

• putrid

(noun) - a food served in small portions before the main part of a meal

• scrumptious

• hors d’oeuvre

• meager

• tenants

(verb) - to make (someone) feel very ashamed or foolish

• contender

• pompous

• scrutiny

• humiliate

(noun) - the fact or state of being involved in or connected to something (such as a crime)

• contender

• implication

• scrutiny

• grapple