Ghost Boys-Session #8-Vocabulary Review

This verb is another word for shaking or trembling.

• quintessential

• quaker

• quaking

• quivering

This verb means to avoid as in, "I scurried across the street to avoid the passing cars".

• evident

• evade

• evolve

• excursion

Gymnasts are very flexible and have no problem _____ their body or twisting it into different shapes.

• contorting

• exaggerating

• moving

• exacerbating

Outside the preliminary hearing you could hear the chanting and _____ of community members who didn't approve of Officer Moore's actions against Jerome.

• protesting

• proclaiming

This noun means the ability to understand and share the feelings of another person.

• empathy

• sympathy

• apathy

• callousness

Jerome shares his life before and after death in ____, or small fragments or pieces.

• wasps

• wisps

• sentences

• poems

This noun shows an often unfair and/or untrue belief that many people share about others or about things.

• negativity

• prejudice

• stereotype

• bias

An adjective, this word describes something black.

• stubble

• sable

• onyx

• dark

This word is an adjective that means disrespectful.

• scornful

• sourpuss

• sarcastic

• scurvy

A verb, this action shows something rising or rolling in waves and surges.

• bushels

• bellowing

• billows

• bowels