HMH Module 9 Week 2 Vocabulary

very serious and trusting

• elusive

• misperception

• earnest

• chastised

certain that something happened

• convinced

• hoaxes

• theoretical

• encounters

based on a reasonable guess rather than fact

• earnest

• sightings

• hoaxes

• theoretical

acts that involve tricking or lying to people

• chastised

• desperately

• hoaxes

• misperception

hard to find or understand

• chastised

• elusive

• encounters

• desperately

trying, feeling, or doing something to an extreme degree

• desperately

• chastised

• convinced

• elusive

scolded severely

• elusive

• chastised

• theoretical

• sightings

unplanned meetings

• earnest

• sightings

• theoretical

• encounters

something people have seen with their own eyes

• sightings

• hoaxes

• elusive

• encounters

a misunderstanding

• chastised

• encounters

• misperception

• earnest