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Characters and People

Characters and People. Creative Writing Vocab week 7. Name all the figures correctly, +3pts Name 10 or more correctly, +2pts. uncouth.

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Characters and People

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  1. Characters and People Creative Writing Vocab week 7 Name all the figures correctly, +3pts Name 10 or more correctly, +2pts

  2. uncouth • This uncouth Stooge could play the fiddle. Despite his training in a classical instrument, he lacked the manners and sophistication to fit in with the gentry, causing mayhem, slaps, and the occasional food fight. • Adj. lacking manners of sophistication

  3. slovenly • These three witches of the Marshes of Morva were messy beings. Their slovenly cottage in the swamp was strewn with cauldrons, pots, a rickety old loom, and various other pieces of junk that appalled Taran and his friends. • Adj. Messy, unkempt

  4. haggard Adj. Looking exhausted or weary, as from worry, fatigue or suffering This burly fellow took a beating after visiting the giants. His haggard appearance surprised his young wizard friends. Fatigued and weary, he slapped a few steaks on his half-giant’s black eyes.

  5. laggard This figure appears to be a laggard, slow and not moving very fast, unless it’s gobbling frog-like creatures in his palace on Tatooine, but I doubt a galactic crime lord can be slow about anything. N. One who falls behind; often late or slow

  6. superficial This actress always seemed superficial to me; she played a bumbling blonde bozo on Three’s Company and sold the Thigh Master on TV. Why is she so concerned about her physical appearance? Adj. Relating to the surface

  7. fetid The poor cat ran away from the amorous skunk. She found his smell revolting, but this fetid critter was bewitched by the painted stripe down her back. Adj. Smelling extremely unpleasant

  8. ingrate This character is such an ingrate! No matter how many times Bart and Lisa help him, he still can’t remember their names, even after the time they proved he hadn’t robbed the Qwik-e-Mart because his feet were small and couldn’t fill his giant clown shoes. N. An ungrateful person

  9. macabre This author is known to be a bit macabre at times, with lots of blood and gore in her books about vampires. The movie version of Interview with a Vampire, though not terribly bloody, was gruesome enough. Adj. Gory, gruesome

  10. churl This character in Hamlet was a smart one, though a bit of a churl. His lowly profession, I suppose, is prone to such impoliteness, but he knew his job. No “bones” about it. N. An impolite and unpleasant person

  11. malevolent This malevolent character and his cantankerous cat wanted to captured the Smurfs, probably wanting to do horrible things to them, but he always found himself “Out Smurfed again!” Adj. having or showing the wish to do evil; desire to do ill

  12. malignant Agent Smith, played by this actor, became a malignant virus within the world of the Matrix; in contrast, in The Lord of the Rings, he portrayed Elrond, a benign elf who wanted to rid the world of evil instead of spreading it. Adj. highly infectious or virulent; spreading of something bad

  13. boorish All six of the Three Stooges played a bunch of boors, rude and unmannerly dolts who found themselves in trouble because of their uncouth and boorish natures. (ID all six Stooges) Adj. a rude, unmannerly person (boor=noun)

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