The Graveyard Book Vocabulary 1

Guttural

• in your guts

• produced in the throat; harsh-sounding

• feeling disheartened

• produced in the stomach; painful

inhabitant

• a ghost

• stubborn, hardheaded

• when someone doesn't listen

• a person or animal that lives in or occupies a place

obduracy

• when someone is stubborn only without proof of them being wrong

• when someone is stubborn even with proof of them being wrong

• when you argue with someone

• a rainproof jacket

scandalize

• shock or horrify

• to upset by gossiping

• to be stubborn

• a window

decree

• to shock or horrify

• when you give a speech

• to order or command

• to be disheartened

tousle

• to clean up

• to make something untidy or messy

• to throw something

• when you fight with someone

anorak

• a type of building

• stone work

• a type of spider

• a rain coat

attain

• to let go of

• to hold onto someone

• to achieve

• to win

Masonry

• plastic

• a person named Mason

• a type of window

• stone work

Casement

• a type of window

• when you keep something in a case

• a type of plastic

• a type of graveyard