BFG Vocabulary Review Chapters 1-10

What word means to take away quickly?

• Whisk

• actually

• Squirm

• Stride

The word gobble is a homograph. What are 2 meanings for gobble.

• What a turkey says

• Another word for step

• To eat up a lot of food quickly

• Another word for a bedroom

Peer

• To look through

• A space or hole between two objects

• A child with no family

• curled up small

To move around uncomfortably

• Crouch

• Whisk

• Squirm

• Tremble

The word cross is a homograph. What are three meanings for cross?

• To go from one side of the street to the other

• Another word for angry

• To cover a mistake with a line

• A bedroom where children who do not live with their family sleep

Shaking your body because you are scared

• Orphan

• Trembling

• Crouched

• Obvious

Answer explanation

Sophie trembled in fear when she saw the giant.

Obvious

• A place where children sleep if they don’t live with their family

• Shaking with fear

• A time of night when evil things come out

• Easy to see and understand

Another word for basement

• Vast

• Stride

• cellar

• Preposterous

The word common is a homograph. What are three definitions of “common”?

• Things that are then same

• There are a lot of them

• Regular or every day

• Polite or kind

Answer explanation

The dog yelped because a person stepped on his foot.

Sensation

• A feeling in your body

• Yelling out because you are scared

• Moving around uncomfortably

• Another word for large