Vocab
The highest part
Summit
Youngest member of the Murry family; can read minds
Charles Wallace
Mrs. Whatsit tells Mrs. Murry "There is such thing as a..."
Tesseract
Mrs. Who uses the illustration of a bug on a string to explain this concept
The tesseract / tessering
The kids on Camazotz all do this at the exact same time
Skip rope and bounce balls
To convert from a coded form to ordinary language; decode
Decipher
Visits the Murry house in Ch. 1; used to be a star
Mrs. Whatsit
In ch. 1, Meg is scared when the radio announces this weather warning
hurricane
Mrs. Whatsit transforms into this form in ch. 4
A horse-like creature with wings
Through the crystal ball, we learn that Calvin's mom...
Is angry and beats her kids
To boil or bubble
Seethe
The Murry family's dog
Fortinbras
Mrs. Who is strange because...
She speaks mainly in quotes (of varying languages)
The black thing represents this
Evil
The man with the red eyes does this to Charles Wallace
Excessive belief in one's superiority; excessive pride
Arrogance
Meg's twin brothers
Sandy & Dennys
There are this many children in the O'Keefe family (Calvin's family)
11
Meg, CW, and Calvin use these to breathe
Magical flowers
Mrs. Whatsit gives these to Meg
Her glasses
To surrender, release, or let go of; give up
Relinquish
Has a crystal ball and uses it to look into different places
The happy medium
Calvin gives Meg this compliment in ch. 3
She has "dream boat eyes"
The creatures on Uriel are singing this
Psalms (Christian worship)
Meg does this to Charles Wallace to temporarily break the man's control over him
She tackles him / gives him a concussion