<p> The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle Vocabulary for Test #2</p><p>1. contemptuously – scornful 18.equanimity – calmness; even- tempered; composure 2. audacity – boldness 19.blithely – joyous, carefree 3. grotesque – bizarre, odd 20.fastidiousness – picky, hard to 4. caucus – to gather, meet to please determine an outcome 21.commence - to begin 5. raucous – rowdy, loud 22.portentously – amazed, or 6. thwarting – to prevent ominous something 23.shrewdly – keen awareness, 7. atonement – restitution, to intelligence make amends 24.solemnity – seriousness 8. rebuff – snub, reject 25.apparition – ghostly 9. shirk – to evade or avoid appearance</p><p>10.liberated – to set free 26.meddle – to interfere</p><p>11.maelstrom – a powerful 27.renounce – to give up, reject whirlpool 28.slander – a false or mean 12.pitch – to plunge, fall, lurch statement</p><p>13.asunder – into separate parts 29.niceties – careful or precise or pieces treatment</p><p>14.flounder – to struggle, have 30.melancholia – depression difficulties; lose balance 31.morosely – gloomy 15.impede – to obstruct; to hinder; to slow progress 32.sober – free from excess or exaggeration, subdued 16.abate – to diminish or reduce in intensity or amount</p><p>17.ebb – to flow back; to decline; fade away</p>