Vocabulary Chapters 1-3
What does it mean to completely fill ones mind and attention? To use up something completely, such as food, energy, or time.
Consuming
What word means a small remaining quantity of something?
The part of something that is left when the other parts are gone.
Remnants
Burn slowly with smoke but no flame.
Smoldered
Sudden and unexpected
abrupt
The main character in the story.
Brian Robeson
What word means finally, in the end?
Finally, after a long series of events....
Ultimately
What word means made smaller or less?
To have been made smaller, lessened, or reduced in size, value, or power.
Very large in size, quantity, or extent.
Enormous
Constructed in a makeshift way.
If someone is crude, they are unrefined, lacking in taste or tact, or vulgar, often in a way that makes others uncomfortable.
crude
a valued chicken like bird the of US and Canada. Mottled brownish feathers, males make drumming sounds with their wings.
foolbird
What word means lessen, reduce, or remove? To cause something to become smaller or less intense.
Abating
What word means tangled into a thick mass?
Tangled into a dense, thick, or messy mass.
Matted
Control or maintain the rate of speed so that it operates properly.
Control or direct something by means of rules, or to adjust it to a specific standard, rate, or degree.
Regulate
To put right or correct.
rectify
A natural gas, used in making fuels.
butane
What word means extreme physical or mental suffering?
What word means completely certain about something?
Persuaded
Convinced
Make one's way quickly or awkwardly up a steep slope or over rough ground by using one's hands as well as one's feet.
Impaired
Being hysterical or going berserk.
What word means the height of an object or point in relation to sea level or ground level?
What word means occurring or found at intervals or various locations rather than all together?
Distracted or disorganized
Having sharp projections or a rough, irregular appearance.
Snaggly
An area that is sealed off with an artificial or natural barrier.
enclosure
Occurring so frequently as to seem ceaseless or interrupted.
incessant