The Westing Game Vocabulary Chapters 22&23

to spend as little money as you can

• dispute

• misery

• scrimp

something that you can not see but you can feel

• presence

• prizefighter

• hack

extreme suffering or unhappiness

• misery

• dispute

• prizefighter

a disagreement or argument

• misery

• scrimp

• dispute

A fight between two professional boxers for money

• misery

• prizefighter

• presence

very careful about doing something

• misery

• meticulous

• hack

to manage or deal with something

• fuming

• hack

• composure

The________ is what a text is mostly about.

• main idea

• theme

• simile

A _______ is the message the reader takes away from the story.

• theme

• main idea

• metaphor