This word means "tight" or "taut." Muscles sometimes feel this way.
What is tense?
100
This is the word for the problem in a story.
What is conflict?
100
This is the word for a sound repeating itself over and over.
What echo?
100
This is the word for what a ghost does.
What is haunt?
100
These are things you can expect to do at the NMA dance.
What are eat food, dance, or take pictures?
200
This word means "odd" or "strange."
What is peculiar?
200
This is a word for when we win at sports or in life.
What is triumph?
200
This is the word for the way the elevator in the story sounds.
What is creaky?
200
This is the type of noise an owl or other bird of prey makes.
What is screech?
200
These are things you can expect to do at the lock-in.
What are eat food, watch a movie, do crafts, play sports?
300
This is a word that could be used to describe dark thunderclouds.
What is ominous?
300
This is the part of a story when the problem is confronted by the main character; it is the turning point of a story.
What is climax?
300
This is the word for when a prisoner is sentenced to life in prison.
What is condemned?
300
These are 2 words for a loud yell.
What are scream and shout?
300
These are the word roots for rhinoceros (rhino + ceros)
What are nose (rhino) and horn (ceros)?
400
This word takes its root from the Greek god, Pan.
What is panicky?
400
This is a word for how the air feels in a room.
What is atmosphere?
400
This is the verb that shares the root of "apprehensive."
What is apprehend?
400
This is a word for the motion the elevator makes in the story when Martin and the lady are going up to the 18th floor.
This is also a word for what your lip may do if you are fearful or about to cry.
What is tremble?
400
This is the destination of the Middle School Field trip on December 5.
What is the Minnesota Orchestra or Orchestra Hall?
500
These are words (2 of them) that mean "nervous." You must guess both words to earn 500 points.
What are apprehensive and timid?
500
This is the word for the number of people who can be in an elevator.
What is capacity?
500
These are words (2 of them) for creating a hole in something.
What are "boring" and "penetrating"?
500
This is the word the author uses to describe the movement Martin makes on his crutches.
What is hobble?
500
This is the name of the assistant principal at NMA.