Word List 23

wintry

picture writing

boisterous mirth or laughter

furthest behind

back country

one who serves for hire

hairy

white with age

destruction by fire

domestic; made at home

a sermon or discourse on a moral or religious topic

to deceive; delude

crowd

urging to some course of conduct or action; exhorting; encouraging

pertaining to cultivation of gardens

shack; small, wretched house

confused uproar

arrogance; excessive self-conceit

dull; monotonous

humbleness of spirit

small hill

the dark organic material in soils, produced by the decomposition of vegetable or animal matter and essential to the fertility of the earth

to rush

use sparingly; conserve; save

frugality; thrift

hybrid; mixed breed

excessive

person unduly worried about his health

study of fish

expression whose meaning as a whole differs from the meanings of its individual words

charmingly simple or rustic

produced by fire; volcanic

shame; disgrace; dishonor

deceptive; unreal

to drink in

complicated situation; embroilment