Tuck Everlasting Vocabulary

What does tangent mean?

• sadness, unhappy, gloomy

• a completely different line of thought or action

• to respond in a sharp, angry manner

• annoying, irritating, bothersome, or humiliating

What does melancholy mean?

• sadness, unhappy, gloomy

• a completely different line of thought or action

• to respond in a sharp, angry manner

• annoying, irritating, bothersome, or humiliating

What does retort mean?

• mess, disorganization, cluttered

• obedience, surrender, acceptance

• to respond in a sharp, angry manner

• annoying, irritating, bothersome, or humiliating

What does it mean to be galling?

• mess, disorganization, cluttered

• obedience, surrender, acceptance

• to respond in a sharp, angry manner

• annoying, irritating, bothersome, or humiliating

What does submission mean?

• mess, disorganization, cluttered

• obedience, surrender, acceptance

• an uncivilized person - a person in a primitive state

• annoying, irritating, bothersome, or humiliating

What does disarray mean?

• mess, disorganization, cluttered

• obedience, surrender, acceptance

• an uncivilized person - a person in a primitive state

• a person who is unable to read or write

What is a barbarian?

• mess, disorganization, cluttered

• unfamiliar, different than what you're used to

• an uncivilized person - a person in a primitive state

• a person who is unable to read or write

What does it mean to be illiterate?

• lasting for a very short time, quick

• unfamiliar, different than what you're used to

• careful, gentle, delicate

• unable to read or write

What does alien mean?

• lasting for a very short time, quick

• unfamiliar, different than what you're used to

• careful, gentle, delicate

• exhausted, powerless, miserable

What does fleeting mean?

• lasting for a very short time, quick

• unfamiliar, different than what you're used to

• careful, gentle, delicate

• exhausted, powerless, miserable