This verb means to focus on something or someone intensely with complete attention
What is concentrate?
100
This noun is a playful or mischievous trick.
What is a prank?
100
This verb means to take in information: to grab all of your attention; to soak up liquid.
Mrs. Granger did this when she listened to Nick's report.
What is absorb?
100
This verb means to say something suddenly.
What is to blurt?
100
This verb means to order someone not to do something.
Mrs. Granger did this to the class after they started calling a pen "frindle".
What is forbidding?
200
This noun means someone who is mischievous or a dishonest person.
What is a rascal?
200
This verb means lasting for a long time; to put up with something painful or unpleasant.
Mrs. Granger had to do this the word "frindle".
What is to endure
200
This noun means a wicked person, often an evil character in a play.
What is a villain?
200
This noun is a struggle against someone in charge; an armed fight against a government.
What is rebellion.
200
This adjective means embarrassing or difficult.
Mr. Allen felt this way when the principle came to visit.
What is awkward
300
This verb means to plan and carry out a course of action, or this noun means the person who plans and carries out a course of action.
What is mastermind?
300
This noun means money that is committed with an expectation of gaining a profit.
This describes Bud Lawrence.
What is an investment?
300
This verb means to put into print.
What is to publish?
400
This adjective means worth noticing: extraordinary.
Mrs. Granger told Nick he would do extraordinary things in his life. She used this word.
What is remarkable?
400
This adjective means very complicated; hard to understand or having a lot of intricate parts or details.
This word describes the dictionary in Frindle.
What is complex?
400
This verb means to become wrinkled or to draw together.
Mrs. Granger did this with her lips when she was mad at Nick.
What is to pucker?
400
This verb means to make something stand out clearly to show it's importance. Nick did this when he first used the word frindle for Mrs. Granger.
What is emphasize?
400
This noun means a serious, formal promise.
Nick and his friends made this when they wanted to be sure Frindle would always be used no matter what.
What is an Oath?
500
This is an adjective that means preparing the way for something important that comes later. Nick had to make a plan before his big plan could be successful.
What is preliminary?
500
This adjective means something that causes debate or disagreement.
This word describes the idea that anyone can make up a word.
What is controversial?
500
This noun is something that is very popular for a short period of time. Mrs. Granger believed that this was what Nick's plan was and it would not last long.
What is a fad?
500
this noun means a lot of noise, excited activity or outburst.
What is commotion?
500
This noun is a newspaper or official journal. Because Frindle got so much attention it ended up making this newspaper.