A Wrinkle in Time Chapter 8 Vocab

Match the following

• unusually tall and thin

• hysterical

• emotionally out of control

• infuriated

• extremely angry

• enlightened

• tedious

• pedantic

• free from ignorance and false ideas; possessing sound understanding

• spindly

Match the following

• destroy

• radiate

• continuing in an unchanging tone; wearying

• submit

• to spread out or send out rays

• monotonous

• menacing; threatening

• ominous

• yield in surrender

• annihilate

Match the following

• to come out from a source

• emanate

• to turn aside from a course; to stray

• deviate

• a state of extreme agitation

• misconception

• the positive or negative feelings associated with a word

• swivet

• an incorrect idea

• connotations

Match the following

• gloomy

• serenity

• police officer

• prodigious

• the state of being calm, peaceful, and untroubled

• constable

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

• sullen

• strange, mysterious

• uncanny

Match the following

• sly, clever at being deceitful

• cunning

• angered by the unfairness or meanness of something

• succession

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

• indignant

• quiet, gentle, and easily imposed on; submissive

• meek

• a high-pitched sound

• shrill