The Beau Catcher
The Hockey Sweater
The Wish
Previous Vocab Words
Wild Card
100

A low, soft felt hat

What is a fedora?

100

The jersey does the author get sent by mistake instead of a Montreal Canadiens jersey

What is a Toronto Maple Leafs Jersey?

100

kind of wide

What is widish?

100

Largeness or enormousness

What is enormity?

100

To convince someone of something

What is persuade?

200

smallest or slightest

What is merest?

200

An Anglican Priest

What is a vicar?

200

To receive or collect

What is obtain?

200

An island by San Francisco used as a prison

What is Alcatraz?

200

A questions that needs to be proven right or wrong, often in science class

What is a hypothesis?

300
To have longing or wanted for something

What is wistful?

300

very bad or unpleasant

What is abominable?

300

To begin to move and/or wake up

What is stirred?

300

Anger or annoyance because of unfair treatment

What is indignation?

300

To expand further when explaining something to someone

What is eloborate?

400

The colour of the beau catcher that the little girl bought from the department story

What is green?

400
To do something because someone asked you to

What is obliged?

400

The three colours that made up the different parts of the carpet the boy was playing on.

What are red, black, and yellow?

400

A book that is filled with lots of general facts about the world, listed in alphabetical order

What is an encyclopedia?

400

Odd, weird, or interesting

What is peculiar?

500

What the girl did differently that caused Bert Howland to notice her

What is holding her head up?

500

The name of the hockey player the author and his friends are obsessed with

Who is Maurice Richard?

500

The name of the author of this story

Who is Roald Dahl?

500

Feeling or showing fondness or tenderness.

What is affectionate?

500

The beginning of something; its starting point.

What is an origin?