Vocabulary
The Weird Watsons
Birmingham
Vocabulary
Potpourri
100
Kenny described Joey's socks as this vocabulary word. 

What is frilly?

100

His lips were stuck to a mirror.

Who is Byron?

100
People thought it was a sonic boom.

What is the bombing?

100

Synonym for scold

What is criticize?


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100
The year the book is set.
What is 1963?
200

Kenny was doing this vocabulary word when he went to Collier's Landing and almost drowned. It means to enter land without the owner's permission.

What is trespassing?

200

Kenny's nickname for Byron after the incident in the first chapter. 

What is the Lipless Wonder?

200
A faceless creature with big hands.

What is the Wool Pooh?

200

To squeeze of twist something, to force liquid from it.

What is wring?

200

Flint, Michigan

What is where the Watsons live.

300

Life in Birmingham was still influenced by Jim Crow laws. These laws required the separation of Blacks and Whites. This is called?

What is segregation?

300

Mr. and Mrs. Watson's relationship includes a lot of this.

What is humor and joking around?

300

The location of where Kenny almost drowned. 

What is Collier's Landing?

300

The beliefs or opinions that are generally held about someone or something.

What is reputation?

300

He stole Kenny's dinosaurs.

Who is LJ Jones

400

When someone doesn't like somebody else because of their race, skin color, or gender and treats them as inferior.

What is discrimination?

400

According to Byron, this picks up frozen dead people.

What is the garbage truck?

400

The picture that was in the shoe Kenny thought was Joey's.

What is a picture of a boy and a dog?

400

An antonym for desire.

What is satisfaction, peaceful, disinterest?


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400

He bullies Kenny and stole his gloves.

Who is Lawrence Dunn?
500

When something is spread widely throughout a group of people. 

What is pervasive?

500

Byron's best friend

Who is Buphead?

500

Kenny becomes so distraught over almost drowning and witnessing the bombing that his perspective changes. The literary term for this is...

What is an unreliable narrator?

500

Skilled at gaining an advantage, especially deceitfully.

What is wily?

500

The literary term for the perspective the novel is written in. 

What is point of view?

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