A Wrinkle in Time Chapter 8 Vocab

Match the following

• emotionally out of control

• infuriated

• tedious

• hysterical

• extremely angry

• spindly

• free from ignorance and false ideas; possessing sound understanding

• enlightened

• unusually tall and thin

• pedantic

Match the following

• to spread out or send out rays

• annihilate

• continuing in an unchanging tone; wearying

• radiate

• destroy

• monotonous

• yield in surrender

• ominous

• menacing; threatening

• submit

Match the following

• an incorrect idea

• swivet

• a state of extreme agitation

• connotations

• to come out from a source

• misconception

• to turn aside from a course; to stray

• deviate

• the positive or negative feelings associated with a word

• emanate

Match the following

• the state of being calm, peaceful, and untroubled

• prodigious

• remarkably or impressively great in extent, size, or degree

• constable

• police officer

• uncanny

• gloomy

• sullen

• strange, mysterious

• serenity

Match the following

• angered by the unfairness or meanness of something

• shrill

• quiet, gentle, and easily imposed on; submissive

• cunning

• a high-pitched sound

• succession

• a group of things that follow one another, a series

• meek

• sly, clever at being deceitful

• indignant