Vocab Fall List 8

   ruinous - disastrous or destructive
  
   quavered - shake or tremble in speaking

   certitude - absolute certainty or something is the case

   notch - a V-shaped cut

   perspired - give out sweat through the pores of the skin, result of 
                     heat

   manifested - clear or obvious to the eye or mind

   latrine - a toilet or outhouse

   uttered - make a sound with one's voice

   parried - ward off especially with a counter move

  conscious - aware of and responding to one's surrounding awake

  feigning - pretend to be affected by

  leisurely - acting or don at leisure; unhurried or relaxed

  conjure - make appear unexpectedly or seemingly from nowhere

  anesthetized - administer an anesthetic to a person or animal

  tyranny - cruel and oppressive government or rule

  dreary - dull, bleak, and lifeless

  grotesque - comically or repulsively ugly or distorted

reckoning - the action or process of calculating or estimating