vocab 1
vocab 2
short answer
short answer
figurative language
100
desolate
having little or no vegetation
100
forlorn
sad
100
What is camp green lake like?
hot dry flat wasteland
100
What is the worst thing to be bitten by
yellow spotted lizard
100
It all seemed like one big hole
simile
200
excavated
dug out
200
juvienile
a young person
200
What is the rule to remember about snakes and scorpions
don't bother them they wont bother you
200
Why does the warden's polish sting
venom
200
The other bodies in the room were little more than bags of flesh and bones, dumped across broken chairs and couches.
metaphor
300
expanse
wide open land
300
perserverance
persistance
300
What does Stanley's father do?
inventor
300
How did Stanley's great grandfather survive in the desert?
found refuge on God's thumb
300
You're going to be thrirsty for the next eighteen months
hyperbole
400
expelling
ejecting forcibly
400
preposterous
ridiculous
400
Eventhough Stanleys family has bad luck, how do they act?
hopeful
400
What does the warden look like?
tall women with red hair and lots of freckles
400
only ten million more to go
hyperbole
500
deftly
skillfully
500
grimaced
contorted his face in pain
500
Who was it that thought the gold tube looked like a shotgun shell?
squid
500
Why do the boys think the warden knows their names?
hidden cameras
500
his heart had hardened as well
metphor
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