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Lesson 1 Vocab. “The Story Of An Eye-Witness” By: Jack London. Colossal. Extremely Large. That squid is very Colossal in size. Conflagration. A Large Destructive Fire. That fire in San Francisco was a Conflagration. . Contrivance.
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Lesson 1 Vocab “The Story Of An Eye-Witness” By: Jack London
Colossal • Extremely Large. • That squid is very Colossal in size.
Conflagration • A Large Destructive Fire. • That fire in San Francisco was a Conflagration.
Contrivance • A thing that is created skillfully and inventively to serve a particular purpose. • The wheel was a very good Contrivance.
Cunning • Having or showing skill in achieving one's ends by deceit or evasion. • My Sister is a very Cunning little girl.
Debris • fragments or remnants of something destroyed or broken; rubble • The earth is surrounded by space debris
Disrupted • Interrupt (an event, activity, or process) by causing a disturbance or problem. • The teacher was talking before his class was Disrupted by the swat team.
Flank • A lateral part or side: the flank of a mountain. • The flames flanked on either side
Lavishly • Characterized by or produced with extravagance and profusion. • My aunt’s house is a very Lavish place to live
Lurid • Very vivid in color, esp. so as to create an unpleasantly harsh or unnatural effect: "lurid food colorings". • That was a very lurid color effect
Perpendicular • vertical; straight up and down; upright. • That is a very perpendicular line