Coraline Chapter 7 Vocabulary

keep from sight; hide

• shrivel

• conceal

• reckoning

• beldam

tentative, unsure, or slow in acting or speaking.

• hesitant

• scullery

• reckoning

• conceal

a malicious and ugly woman, especially an old one; a witch

• slinky

• hag

• beldam

• scullery

a woman employed to teach children in a private household

• beldam

• scullery

• teacher

• governess

a small kitchen or room at the back of a house used for washing dishes and other dirty household work

• scullery

• wispy

• beldam

• reckoning

wrinkle and contract or cause to wrinkle and contract, especially due to loss of moisture

• wispy

• shrivel

• pulsed

• husk

(of hair, threads, smoke, etc.) fine; feathery

• conceal

• hestitant

• governess

• wispy

throb rhythmically; pulsate

• pulsed

• husk

• reckoning

• pump

the action or process of calculating or estimating something

• mathematics

• reckoning

• conceal

• hesitant

the dry outer covering of some fruits or seeds

• peel

• shrivel

• husk

• beldam