Gift of the Magi Vocabulary

The "wise" men that brought gifts to the newborn baby Jesus

• Instigate

• Magi

To provoke or stir up

• Instigate

• Appertaining

To wear off or die down

• Vestibule

• Subside

A large entrance or reception room or area

• Appertaining

• Vestibule

Belonging to; becoming

• Appertaining

• Depreciate

To decrease in value

• Depreciate

• Chope

The area of the face surrounding the mouth of a person or an animal.

• Ravage

• Chops

Ruins; devastating damages

• Truant

• Ravages

Absent without permission

• Truant

• Scrutiny

The act of examining something closely (as for mistakes)

• Inconsequential

• Scrutiny