A Wrinkle in Time Chapter 8 Vocab

Match the following

• free from ignorance and false ideas; possessing sound understanding

• enlightened

• tedious

• hysterical

• unusually tall and thin

• infuriated

• extremely angry

• pedantic

• emotionally out of control

• spindly

Match the following

• menacing; threatening

• radiate

• continuing in an unchanging tone; wearying

• ominous

• to spread out or send out rays

• monotonous

• destroy

• annihilate

• yield in surrender

• submit

Match the following

• a state of extreme agitation

• emanate

• an incorrect idea

• misconception

• the positive or negative feelings associated with a word

• connotations

• to come out from a source

• swivet

• to turn aside from a course; to stray

• deviate

Match the following

• gloomy

• sullen

• strange, mysterious

• constable

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

• serenity

• police officer

• uncanny

• the state of being calm, peaceful, and untroubled

• prodigious

Match the following

• sly, clever at being deceitful

• succession

• angered by the unfairness or meanness of something

• cunning

• a high-pitched sound

• meek

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

• indignant

• quiet, gentle, and easily imposed on; submissive

• shrill