Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Mitch
Chika
Brain Injury Month
100

Diligent and hard-working

What is Industrious?

100

Filled with horror or shock

Aghast

100

Why Mitch was going upstairs before Thanksgiving.

what is to hide from the family?
100

Where they went for Christmas

What is back to Haiti?

100

The number children and adults in the United States who are living with a permanent brain injury.

What is over 5.3 Million people?

200

In accordance with the highest standards.

What is impeccably?

200
A spicy dish of pickled cabbage, carrots, bell peppers, and scotch bonnet peppers

What is Pikliz?

200

The first day Chika appeared again to Mitch

What is the day of his father’s funeral?

200

Why Chika started wearing her headbands.

What is because of her bald spot?

200

% of acquired brain injury’s from falling

What is 47.9%

300

A state of happiness or satisfaction

Contentment 

300

Extremely serious or urgent 

What is Dire?

300

What Mitch’s perception of fatherhood was

What is a place where a child can find sanctuary? 

300

What Chika called her Grandfather

What is Pop Pop?

300

How often someone in the US sustains a brain injury

What is every 9 seconds?

400

Experience of severe mental or physical pain or suffering

What is anguished?

400

A pilot 

What is Aviator?
400

What Mitch’s father wanted to be at one time. 

What is an opera singer?

400

How Chika remembers what Thanksgiving is

What is the orange potatoes? 

400
The month of Brain Injury Awareness Month

What is March?

500

Puzzled, confused, or bewildered

What is bemused?

500

Conception or belief about something

What is notions?
500

What affected Mitch’s dads walking and clear speech?

What are strokes?

500

What tears did Chika cry?

What are happy tears? 

500

The color for the Awareness Ribbon for Brain Injury

What is Blue?