"The Scarlet Ibis" Vocabulary List

to swerve or lurch from side to side while in motion

• precariously

• imminent

• careen

The meaning of heresy is a popular opinion that goes along with accepted beliefs.

• True

• False

persistent; refusing to give up

• infallible

• dogged

• imminent

Clark hung the Christmas lights ____________ on the roof as he was not holding onto the ladder and was three stories from the ground.

The teacher had to ___________ the instructions for the project because students were talking during the explanation.

Invalid means a person who is disabled due to an illness or injury.

• True

• False

Iridescent means colorful like a rainbow.

• True

• False

inability to make a mistake

• infallible

• invalid

• precarious

• dogged

likely to happen

• careen

• infallible

• evanesce

• imminent

to disapper

• careen

• evanesce

• heresy

• imminent