Vocabulary
Billy thinks "The Landlady is ____________ because of her strange behavior...but she's really dangerous.
What is dotty?
A peculiar smell seemed to _________ from her person.
What is emanate?
A place in which someone lives or stays temporarily.
What is lodging?
To be indecisive, hesitate or falter.
What is dithering?
An uneven, inconsistent or irregular pattern of colors, marks, or spots distributed over a surface.
What is blotchy?
Hotels might have had a ________ to carry his bag.
What is a porter?
When something is stylishly luxurious and expensive.
What is swanky?
Attractively unusual or old-fashioned.
What is quaint?
To become smaller, fewer, less or, decrease.
What is decline?
Having or showing a cautious distrust of someone or something?
What is suspicious?
Billy assumed, based on her position helping people, that The Landlady would be____________ and sweet.
What is congenial?
To attract and hold the interest and attention of; charm.
What is captivate?
A strip of wood, metal, or stone forming the bottom of a doorway and crossed in entering a house or room.
What threshold?
The area around a fireplace or the floor in front of it.
What is a hearth?
The author of "The Landlady"
Who is Roald Dahl?
You might think The Landlady is _______ if she robbed her victims' bodies.
What is rapacious?
The feeling or showing tiredness, especially as a result of excessive exertion or lack of sleep.
What is weary?
When you have a feeling to willingly or favorably dispose toward (an action, belief, or attitude):
What is inclined?
To look keenly or with difficulty at someone or something.
What is peering?
A person who makes a formal application for something.
What is an applicant?
The Landlady puts on a _______ for her guests, who must pass through the streets of her building to stay with her.
What is a facade?
What is transfixed?
A small, oily fish that has been split in a butterfly fashion from head to tail.
What is a kipper?
To position something underneath (someone or something) for support.
What is propped?
When you or overwhelmed or flood waters
What is swamped?