My Daily Vocabulary

 Hello guys!!! Hope you enjoy your weekend and find time to complete this vocab activity! The words in bold are of high frequency. Mind the grammar!!

awry

brine

daily

eggnog

feisty

festoon

finicky

flutter

gruff

guffaw

hinged lid

hoopla

inkling

legacy

niggle

no-brainer

nonchalance

pinch

plaintive

pose

recliner

savor

shove

stark

tally

travesty

whiz

1. She is ___ and curt, but I know she misses me.

2. You're kind of ___ today.

3. He dipped his hand into one of the bags and pulled out a half gallon of ___.

4. Caitlyn carefully opened the ___.

5. Today is his four hundredth and thirty-fourth day in space, a ____ arrived at over three different missions.

6. Nine full cycles, of course, of the moon, their silver companion moving placidly through its phases while the days go ___.

7. The ceiling was ____  with navy glittering fabric and twinkle lights, reminding her of the night sky, and each square coffer was designed in such a way that it looked like small peaks, making the ceiling seem higher, and the room larger, than it was.

8. No flowers, ___, or throw rugs.

9. Jenny was a ___ in home economics class.

10. Caitlyn _____ the words.

11. This was a ___.

12. After all, she loved party planning, and this should have been a ___.

13.  The salty kiss of the sea air and the ____ cry of the distant gulls were the first to welcome Luella Jameson as she stepped out onto the gravel road of Polk Island.

14. The scent of ____ and blooming hydrangeas filled her nostrils, stirring memories of a father she has yet to meet.

15. She forgot about the ___ in her chest that had been getting louder since passing thirty.

16. She all but ____ Krista toward the group, then scrolled her emails for her contact at the balloon company.

17. Bless her heart, Linda had insisted that the timing of her own daughter's engagement party wouldn't ____ a problem.

18. He looked happy and at peace, a ____ contrast to the only other photograph she'd seen of Leroy, the one her mother kept.

19. Here he was, living his life, forming connections and leaving a ____.

20. Sasha's beautiful face ___.

21. She shrugged, but inside she felt no such ____.

22. These parties the ____... they're not me.

23. Her eyes ____ upward to his face, and he was seized with the honesty in them.

24.  People turned ____.

25. Cole had the ____ to gently take those fingers and hold them to soothe her worry.

26. She ___.

27. Noah introduced Luella to his mother, June, and his father, Daniel, who set in a ____, looking happy to see them.

Key: 1. gruff; 2.feisty; 3. eggnog; 4. hinged lid; 5. tally; 6. awry; 7.festooned; 8. doily; 9. whiz; 10. savored; 11. travesty; 12. no-brainer; 13. plaintive; 14. brine; 15. niggle; 16. shoved; 17. pose; 18. stark; 19. legacy; 20. pinched; 21.nonchalance; 22. hoopla; 23. flutter; 24. finicky; 25. inkling; 26. guffawed; 27. recliner.