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Mr. Stephens

Mr. Stephens. Short Story Vocabulary Slide Show. apparent. visible; easily seen; obvious. sullen. grumpy; resentful. impulse. urge. retrieved. got back. emerged. came out. porter. a person hired to carry baggage. façades . fronts of buildings. congenial. agreeable, pleasant.

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Mr. Stephens

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  1. Mr. Stephens Short Story Vocabulary Slide Show

  2. apparent visible; easily seen; obvious

  3. sullen grumpy; resentful

  4. impulse urge

  5. retrieved got back

  6. emerged came out

  7. porter a person hired to carry baggage

  8. façades fronts of buildings

  9. congenial agreeable, pleasant

  10. conjured called to mind

  11. rapacious greedy

  12. dotty crazy

  13. emanate to come forth

  14. tantalizing In Greek mythology Tantalus was a king condemned after death to stand in water that moved away whenever he tried to drink it and to remain under branches of fruit that were just out of his reach. Tantalizing has come to mean “teasing by withholding something desired by someone” or “tempting.” tempting

  15. muster to assemble or come together

  16. maneuver to move as a troop

  17. sergeant noncommissioned officer in the army

  18. Battle of Shiloh In the Civil War, a battle between North and South which took place on April 6-7 in 1862 in west Tennessee along the Tennessee River, just north of the Mississippi state line. Named after a church near the battlefield.

  19. askew crookedly; not in straight lines

  20. benediction blessing

  21. resolute purposeful; determined

  22. Mr. Longfellow Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), a popular American poet known for writing poems with strong, regular rhythms.

  23. tremor quiver; vibration

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