Matilda Chapter 1-3 Vocabulary

Fiddle means

• a musical instrument

• touch or fidget with something in a restless or nervous way

• to twirl

Idiocies means

• smart

• educated

• extremely stupid behavior

• making bad choices

Sulking means

• being happy

• being excited

• being sad

• be silent, morose, and bad-tempered out of annoyance or disappointment

Compassionate means

• feeling or showing sympathy and concern for others.

• not feeling sympathy towards others

• feeling sad

• feeling anger towards others

Lyrical

• to sing

• expressing the writer's emotions in an imaginative and beautiful way

• to write

• to paint

Chatterbox means

• silly

• silent

• a person who talks at length about trivial matters.

• an annoying person who is silly and loud

Adoration means

• a deep hate

• resentment of a person

• a deep love or respect

• a strong dislike

Nestle means

• settle or lie comfortably within or against something

• lay down

• sit up