The Lightning Thief Vocab 2

“There was a triumphant in her eyes, as if I’d done something she’d been waiting for all semester.”

Choose the definition that best describes how triumphant is used in the sentence above.

• Trying to catch someone doing something

• To be victorious

• To fail to win

• A small brass musical instrument

“There was a triumphant in her eyes, as if I’d done something she’d been waiting for all semester.”

Which of the following words from the sentence above were clues to the meaning of the word triumphant?

• "fire in her eyes"

• "as if I'd"

• "she'd been waiting for"

• "all semester"

"She exploded into yellow powder, vaporized on the spot, leaving nothing but the smell of sulfur and a dying screech and chill of evil in the air…”

Choose the definition that best describes how vaporized is used in the sentence above.

• A beautiful mythological goddess

• A type of fog

• Water changing into its gas form

• Disintegrated

" She exploded into yellow powder, vaporized on the spot, leaving nothing but the smell of sulfur and a dying screech and chill of evil in the air…”

Select two words from the sentence above that are synonyms to the word vaporized?

• Water

• Turned into sand

• Fire

• Disintegrated

“I envy you for being able to believe that none of this ever happened.”

Choose the definition that best describes how envy is used in the sentence above.

• To be liked

• Cry

• The desire to be like someone else

• To laugh at

“I envy you for being able to believe that none of this ever happened.”

Select two phrases from the sentence above that are clues to the meaning of the word envy.

• being able to believe

• ever happened

• you for

• none of this

“This twenty-four/seven hallucination was more than I could handle. For the rest of the school year, the entire campus seemed to be playing some kind of trick on me.”

Choose the definition that best describes how hallucination is used in the sentence above.

• A state of confusion

• A state of delusion

• A state of exhaustion

• A place of loneliness

“This twenty-four/seven hallucination was more than I could handle. For the rest of the school year, the entire campus seemed to be playing some kind of trick on me.”

Which of the following phrases from the sentence above is a clue to the meaning of the word hallucination?

• "more than I could handle"

• "rest of the school year"

• "twenty-four/seven"

• "seemed to be playing some kind of trick on me"

“I’m not usually an eavesdropper, but I dare you to try not listening if you hear your best friend talking about you to an adult.”

Choose the definition that best describes how eavesdropper is used in the sentence above.

• Impossible to pass through or enter

• To listen to a private conversation

• To talk loudly about someone

• To mind one's own business

“I’m not usually an eavesdropper, but I dare you to try not listening if you hear your best friend talking about you to an adult.”

Which of the following words from the sentence above were clues to the meaning of the word eavesdropper?

• "about you"

• "not usually"

• "but I dare"

• "try not listening"