Monsters are Due on Maple Street Vocab

As they stand there, fearful, apprehensive, mothers clutching children, men standing in front of wives.

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• feeling of happiness

• felling of pleasure

•  uncomfortable feeling of possible harm

• unworried and calm feelings

Sally, in a whisper, sensing the antagonism of the crowd.

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• an active dislike and hostility

• to suggest someone is guilty

• an active love or like

• inability to sleep

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And stop telling me who's dangerous and who isn't and who's safe and who's a menace (he turns to the group and shouts).

• something that is a source of danger

• something that is helpful

• something that is safe

• the inability to use good judgement

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n this brief fraction of a moment they take the first step toward performing a metamorphosis that changes people from a group into a mob.

• to suggest someone is not guilty

• a scientific process

• a butterfly

• a change in appearance, character, or form

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You're standing here all set to crucify - all set to find a scapegoat - all desperate to point some kind of a finger at a neighbor!

• someone who is blamed for errors of others

• someone who is guilty

• someone who is sent to jail

• a type of goat

At this moment one of the little boys, Tommy, looks up to listen to a sound of a tremendous screeching roar from overhead.

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• extremely silent

• extraordinarily large in extent or amount

• an inconsiderable amount

• substandard in effort

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He turns to the faces in the group, his face taut and serious.

• tense

• happy

• relaxed

• valuable

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A little power failure and right away we get all flustered and everything.

• relaxed

• unruffled

• calm

• agitated

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Let's pick out every idiosyncrasy of every single man, woman, and child on the street.

• distinctions

• unimportances

• agreements

• equalities

 

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Persistently, but a little intimidated by the crowd, Tommy explained about the aliens.

• not giving up

• giving up

• accusing of wrong doing

• obediently following