James and the Giant Peach Vocabulary

a short amount of time

• jiffy

• froth

• mammoth

smallest

• vast

• grim

• slightest

bubbles or foam on top of, or in, a liquid

• crafty

• froth

• musty

eyeglasses

• marvel

• despair

• spectacles

having a protruding part or swelling that curves out

• bulging

• eager

• gizzard

cunning; deceitful; sly

• burrowed

• crafty

• desolate

poorly made, falling apart

• glinting

• eager

• ramshackle

gloomy

• grim

• spectacles

• bulging

becoming larger and rounder in size

• jiffy

• swelling

• grim

part of a bird's digestive tract

• slightest

• froth

• gizzard