James and the Giant Peach Vocabulary

James and the Giant Peach Vocabulary

​Chapters 1-14

Multiple Choice

sleepy or tired

• desolate

• drowsily

• wretched

• violent

Multiple Choice

bothersome or annoying

• nuisance

• despair

• precious

• tremendous

Multiple Choice

black fungus that grows in damp places

• disagreeable

• bittersweet

• heave

• mildew

Multiple Choice

a feeling that part sad and part happy

• bittersweet

• disagreeable

• extraordinary

• famished

Multiple Select

choose the 2 words that mean amazing

• marvellous

• scornful

• wretched

• splendid

Multiple Choice

complete absence of hope

• despair

• desolate

• peculiar

• laurel

Multiple Choice

to lift or push with great effort

• gossamer

• dazzling

• heave

• lurch

Multiple Choice

a run down, abandoned building

• nuisance

• despair

• desolate

• ramshackle

Multiple Choice

very hungry

• desolate

• repulsive

• famished

• towering

Multiple Select

Select the 2 words that mean very large or enormous

• gigantic

• marvellous

• mammoth

• ghastly

Multiple Choice

to swallow a large amount loudly

• ghastly

• hideous

• lurch

• gulp

Multiple Choice

of great value, cared for greatly

• precious

• peculiar

• withering look

• shr

Multiple Choice

amazing, like a miracle

• marvellous

• miraculous

• luminous

• bulging

Multiple Choice

want to argue

• drowsily

• gossamer

• violent

• disagreeable

Multiple Choice

a look to make someone feel ashamed

• scornful

• withering look

• gigantic

• insidiously

Multiple Choice

very tall

• towering

• gigantic

• mammoth

• tremendous

Multiple Choice

weird, strange, or odd

• precious

• stationed

• peculiar

• repulsive

Multiple Choice

ugly or disgusting to look at

• dazzling

• scrambling

• repulsive

• hideous

Multiple Choice

giving off light, especially in the dark

• nuisance

• luminous

• despair

• churn