Vocabulary for The Veldt and Kaleidoscope

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Vocabulary for The Veldt and Kaleidoscope

• Recede pg. 7v. to go or move backward
• Efficiency pg. 8 n. ability to finish work
  without wasting time
• Instinctively pg. 9 adv. actions done without
  learning

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• Reluctantly pg. 9 adv. not willing to act
• Insufferable pg. 13 adj. unbearable
• Contemplating pg. 17 v. think about for a long
  time
• Resignation pg. 20 n. patient acceptance

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• Irrevocable pg. 20 adj. final
• Reminisced pg. 22 v. talk or think about past
  events
• Remorse pg. 23 n. deep regret for wrong doing

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Vocabulary for The Other Foot The Highway

• Gravely, pg. 28, adv., thoughtful, serious
• Gnawing, pg. 30, v., torment as if by biting
• Delegation, pg. 32, n. a group of representatives
• Salvaged, pg. 35, v., rescue of property from
  fire, flood, etc.

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• Landmarks, pg. 38, n., something familiar, used
  as a guide
• Incident, pg. 39 n., a happening or event
• Ceaseless, pg. 40 adj., never stopping
• Impatience, pg. 40 n., lack of patience, not
  wanting to wait

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• Oblivious, pg. 40, adj., not mindful, forgetful
• Mingle, pg. 41, v., combine or mix

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Vocabulary The Man The Long Rain

• Expedition, pg. 43, n., journey for some special
  purpose like exploration
• Compassionate, pg. 44, adj., wanting to help
  another person who is suffering
• Squinted, pg. 45, v., look with eyes partly closed

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• Twitched, pg. 50, v., move with a quick jerk
• Surveyed, pg. 52, v., look over, view
• Perpetual, pg. 53, adj., lasting forever
• Vanished, pg. 55, v., disappear

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• Crumple, pg. 57, v., fall down
• Punctured, pg. 59, v., make a hole in with
  something pointed
• Navigable, pg. 61, adj., something ships can
  travel on or through

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Vocabulary for The Rocket Man The Last Night
of the World

• Kneaded, pg. 66., v., press and squeeze with the
  hands
• Nebula, pg. 69, n., mass of dust particles and
  gases in outer space
• Disposable, pg. 70 adj., things that can be
  gotten rid of after use

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• Glittered, pg. 72, v., shine with a bright
  sparkling light
• Linger, pg. 73, v., go slowly as if unwilling to
  leave
• Aroma, pg. 91, n., a pleasant odor
• Coincidence, pg. 92 n., chance occurrence of two
  things at the same time

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• Logical, pg. 92, adj., reasonably expected
• Trifle, pg. 93, n., a small amount, a little bit
• Clasped pg. 94 v., grip firmly with the hands

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Vocabulary The Exiles

• Probe, pg. 94,v., search into
• Spiraling, pg. 96, v., a winding and gradually
  widening curve
• Descended, pg. 98, v., go or come down
• Antiseptic, pg. 99, adj., having a sterilized
  quality

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• Marionettes, pg. 99, n., doll or puppet
• Persuasive, pg. 100 adj., able to win over
• Censored, pg. 100, v., take out parts to make
  satisfactory to a government
• Destruction, pg. 101, n., condition of being
  destroyed

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• Extinguished, pg. 104, v., bring to an end
• Symbolic, pg. 104., adj., used to represent
  something else

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Vocabulary No Particular Night or Morning
The Fox and the Forest

• Tremor, n., an involuntary shaking or trembling
• Pantomiming, v., express by gestures
• Mortar, v., to fix with a cement-like mixture
• Immense, adj., very large

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• Ascended, v., to rise, go up
• Concussions, n., sudden, violent shaking, shock
• Falter, v., move unsteadily stumble
• Predicament n, a difficult situation

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• Guardian, n., a protector
• Resembled v., similar, alike

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Vocabulary Marionettes, Inc. and Zero Hour

• Unethical, pg. 156, adj., not morally correct
• Fluttered, pg. 158, v., move about restlessly
• Duplicate, pg. 158, v., make an exact copy
• Sustenance, pg. 158, n., food, nourishment

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• Pledged, pg. 159, v., promise
• Catapulted, pg., 169, v., throw or hurl
• Apparatus, pg. 170, n., tools or machines
  necessary for a task
• Impressionable, pg. 174, adj., easily influenced

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• Revelations, pg. 176, n., something made known
• Tramping, pg. 177, v., walk heavily

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Vocab. for The Rocket and Epilogue

• Gnaw, pg. 178, v., trouble, torment
• Subsided, pg. 179, v, grow less, die down
• Frustration, pg. 179, n., feeling blocked or
  defeated in a purpose
• Mannequins, pg. 197, n., model of a person

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• Curdled, pg. 180, v., to thicken into a semi
  soft mass
• Insolently, pg. 182, adv., rude, intentionally
  disregarding the feelings of others
• Hammocks, pg. 184, n., a hanging bed made of
  netted cord
• Infinite, pg. 184, adj., without limits, endless

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• Assemble, pg. 186, v., put together fit together
• Monstrous, pg. 186, adj., having the nature or
  appearance of a monster

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Words to study for Final

• Reminisced
• Recede
• Irrevocable
• Mingle
• Slavaged
• Delegation
• Punctured
• Crumple
• Squinted

• Kneaded
• Disposable
• Glittered
• Symbolic
• Extinguished
• Destruction
• Resembled
• Ascended
• Predicament

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Words to study for Final continued

• Tramping
• Sustenance
• Catapulted

• Assemble
• Subsided
• Hammocks