James and the Giant Peach Vocabulary

nuisance

• abandoned; all alone

• beaten down, not well kept

• very annoying or bothersome

• glasses

ramshackle

• beaten down, not well kept

• dull

• lights up; glows; bright

• calling you

desolate

• amazing

• dull

• abandoned; all alone

• very annoying or bothersome

spectacles

• dull

• glasses

• stunned; speechless; amazed; stop & stare

• gigantic, humongous

blunt

• dull

• turning over and over

• lights up; glows; bright

• abandoned; all alone

beckoning

• light, thin, strong spiderweb

• squirmy

• creative, clever

• calling you

luminous

• panicking

• lights up; glows; bright

• stared, came down

• scournful, angry, mad

churning

• turning over and over

• panicking

• stared, came down

• swinging bed hung between 2 trees

frantically

• stared, came down

• calling you

• panicking

• stunned; speechless; amazed; stop & stare

blazed

• stunned; speechless; amazed; stop & stare

• amazing

• creative, clever

• stared, came down