Vocabulary (Nonfiction Texts, List 1)

to begin (a course of action, especially one that is important or demanding)

• embark

• capacity

• recuperate

• improbable

the maximum amount that something can contain

• capacity

• disgruntled

• abruptly

• eerily

unhappy or dissatisfied

• disgruntled

• extravagant

• blunder

• eerily

more expensive than necessary or reasonable; luxurious

• capacity

• disgruntled

• abruptly

• extravagant

to become stronger and better again after an illness or injury

• eerily

• improbable

• recuperate

• blunder

an embarrassing mistake

• adjoining

• blunder

• embark

• improbable

describing buildings, rooms or pieces of land that are next to each other

• abruptly

• adjoining

• embark

• improbable

in a sudden or unexpected way

• abruptly

• eerily

• extravagant

• blunder

in a strange, frightening or mysterious way

• disgruntled

• eerily

• blunder

• abruptly

not likely to be true or to happen

• improbable

• extravagant

• recuperate

• capacity