"The Watsons Go to Birmingham" Vocabulary Chap 1-3

arriving on time

• encourage

• delinquent

• incapable

• punctual

not able to do something

• proposed

• incapable

• encourange

• respectable

knowing and understanding a lot around you

• emulate

• aware

• jabber

• hostile

a young offender

• delinquent

• respectable

• proposed

• punctual

not friendly; unpleasant or harsh

• incapable

• proposed

• hostile

• emulate

to refuse to talk to people because you are angry or annoyed about something

• proposed

• pout

• encourage

• emulate

to ask someone to marry you

• emulate

• proposed

• encourage

• incapable

to talk fast in an unclear or foolish way

• jabber

• proposed

• aware

• emulate

to try to be like someone you admire

• proposed

• encourage

• hostile

• emulate

to spur on, to make someone want to do something

• encourage

• punctual

• incapable

• emulate