A Wrinkle in Time Vocabulary (Chapters 1 - 4)

the state of being relaxed, at peace, and carefree

• serenity

• decipher

• morass

• tangible

• dubious

a person with some marvelous gift

• prodigious

• antagonistic

• centaur

• inexorable

• compulsion

a liquid or lotion to relieve pain

• plaintive

• antagonistic

• compulsion

• relinquished

• liniment

surrendered a possession or right; gave up

• warily

• avid

• inadvertently

• relinquished

• liniment

wildly excited or uncontrolled

• warily

• frenzied

• transmissible

• inexorable

• liniment

something that precedes or introduces

• dubious

• preliminaries

• tangible

• antagonistic

• frenzied

cautiously or watchful

• transmissible

• ephemeral

• decipher

• warily

• frenzied

having an interest in something

• avid

• centaur

• decipher

• tangible

• frenzied

one that opposes another

• prodigious

• liniment

• serenity

• transmissible

• antagonistic

capable of being transported or passed from one to another

• inadvertently

• plaintive

• transmissible

• tangible

• frenzied