The Monkey's Paw Vocab & Roots

having or showing a pleasant personality

• amiable

• snarky

• stealthy

• caprice

condole

• to harm another

• a wise man who is a wonder maker

• to express sympathy

• to captivate or charm

a facial expression

• malign

• Fakir

• talisman

• grimace

to charm or captivate

• condole

• enthrall

• malign

• jarred

a power that is thought to determine the course of events

• chance

• fate

• grimace

• peril

peril

• something that is dangerous

• something that is thought to control one's life

• a facial expression

• something desired

caprice

• to speak harmful untruths about another

• something that is dangerous

• fancy

• a face

to speak harmful untruths about another

• enthrall

• condole

• fated

• malign

placid

• pleasantly calm or peaceful

• to captivate

• something you desire

• to show sympathy

presumptuous

• pleasantly calm or peaceful

• to captivate

• overstepping bounds; taking liberties

• an expression