Vocabulary 1
Speciman
One item in a collection
Expedition
A journey or trip usually to learn something
His real name was Dr. Montgomery Montgomery but the Baudelaires called him this.
Uncle Monty
Uncle Monty had planned to take the Baudelaires to what country for a conference?
Peru
How did Sunny reveal who Dr. Lucafont really was?
She bit his hand.
Nemesis
Your worst enemy
Surveillance
To watch or spy on someone or something
He pretended to be Stephano
Count Olaf
Stephano showed up at Uncle Monty's house to take what position (job)?
Assistant to Uncle Monty
While Violet searched Stephano's room, Sunny created a distraction in the reptile room by doing this.
She unlatched the cage that held the Incredibly Deadly VIper and screamed, pretending to be afraid.
Giddy
Extremely excited
Autopsy
An examination on a dead person to determine the cause of death
She was bitten by the Incredibly Deadly Viper and she bit him back.
Sunny
The hedges outside Dr. Montgomery's house were shaped like this.
Snakes
Although he had shaved his eyebrow and grown a beard, this is how the Baudelaires recognized Count Olaf.
Intimidating
Causing one to be afraid
Entwined
To be twisted together
She devised a lockpick to open up Stephano's briefcase
Violet
When she tied her hair back in a ribbon, you always knew that VIolet was thinking about this.
Making an invention
Uncle Monty is a herpetologist.What does this mean?
He studies snakes.
Eavesdrop
To secretly listen in on a conversation
What does the expression, "Back at the Ranch" mean?
Something happening at the same time in another place
Stephano had a car accident with him on the way to catch a boat to Peru
Mr. Poe
The air near Uncle Monty's house smelled like:
a) onions
b) horshradish
c) eggplant
Horseradish
The Mamba du Mal does not bite his prey but kills them by doing this.
Strangling