Walk Two Moons - Vocabulary 1-11

Peculiar

• fiendish; wicked 

• to draw back, as from something painful or unpleasant

• to perch or settle, especially for the night

• Out of the ordinary; odd; strange; unusual

Diabolic

• fiendish; wicked 

• to make known, especially something secret​

• excessively precisely or properly

• Crazed, mad, insane, demented​

Primly

• to perch or settle, especially for the night

• a large number or amount

• excessively precisely or properly​

• Mischievous, prankish, teasing, disagreeable but in a good way.

The __ chair broke as soon as I sat in it.

My neighbor is an __ old man who doesn't like many people.

walloping

• A series of wallops or blows; a beating​

• Crazed, mad, insane, demented​

• A flexible branch or twig of a plant such as willow, used in weaving baskets and furniture​

• a large number or amount

roost

• excessively precisely or properly

• to make known, especially something secret​

• to perch or settle, especially for the night​

• Mischievous, prankish, teasing, disagreeable but in a good way.​

I am going to give you two for __.

scads

• Crazed, mad, insane, demented​

• a large number or amount​

• to make known, especially something secret​

• excessively precisely or properly​

divulge

• to make known, especially something secret​

• fiendish; wicked 

• A series of wallops or blows; a beating​

• to perch or settle, especially for the night​