vocab
Tangible
tangible something you can perceive by touch. During her first experience tessering, Meg feels nothingness. Not nothingness like darkness, which she ...
Antagonistic
antagonistic. characterized by feelings of intense dislike or hostility. apprehension. fearful expectation or anticipation. sparse. not dense or plentiful.
Bilious
The green of the marble reflecting on their faces made them look bilious.
Placidly
placidly. not easily upset or excited. transmissible. cause (something) to pass on from one place or person to another. offspring. a person's child or children.
Corporeal
Corporeal - having a body; relating to a person's body rather than spirit. While tessering, Meg feels as though her body is missing, or that the ''corporeal ...
Frenzied
Frenzied - wildly excited or uncontrolled. Meg cannot sleep at the beginning of the novel and is watching the trees move in the stormy winds.
Emanate
emanate. of something abstract but perceptible issue or spread out from a source. organisms. an individual animal, plant, or single-celled life form. deviate.
Ephemeral
For some reason Meg felt that Mrs Which, despite her looks and ephemeral broomstick, was someone in whom one could put complete trust.
Inexorable
inexorable. impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, or reason. And this feeling of moving with the earth was somewhat like the feeling of being in the ...
Uncanny
with a lack of courtesy; roughly or abruptly. Uncanny. strange, mysterious, weird, beyond explanation. Piteous. demanding or arousing pity. Delinquent.
Serene
Serene. Completely clear and fine, past tense is serenly. Image: Serene. Prodigious. So great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe. Image: Prodigious.
Assuage
assuage. provide physical relief, as from pain. But with the tentacle came the same delicate fragrance that moved across her with the breeze, and she felt a ...
Atrophy
atrophy. undergo weakening or degeneration as through lack of use. No mind has tried to hold out against IT for so many thousands of centuries that certain ...
Delinquent
Delinquent. A young offender. ; Serene. Completely clear and fine, past tense is serenly. ; Prodigious. So great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe.
Connotation
The Prime Coordinator does not like the negative connotation that Calvin has for the word hypnotized. According to IT, "for you, as well as for the rest of ...
Belligerent
Do you enjoy being the most belligerent, uncooperative child in school?”.
Despondency
Such a wave of despondency came over Meg that she was no longer able to eat.
Deviate
“Yes. Every once in a while there's a little trouble with cooperation, but it's easily taken care of. After today he'll never desire to deviate again.
Frivoling
offering no resistance, Lying on your back face up. Frivoling. to behave inappropriately silly. Tesseract. the four dimensional equivalent of a cube. Image ...
Compulsion
sulky. sullen or moody. compulsion. an irrational need to perform trivial or repetitive actions. dilapidated. in a state of decay, ruin, or deterioration. snide.
Incapable
It was as though the shadow had somehow reached out with its dark power and touched them so that they were incapable of speech.
Myopic
myopic. unable to see distant objects clearly. tramp. travel on foot, especially on a walking expedition. precipitously. abruptly; in a precipitous manner.
Omnipotent
She was frozen, and Charles Wallace was being devoured by IT, and her omnipotent father was doing nothing.
preconditioned
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