Phantom Tollbooth Vocabulary Chapter 3

deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion

• gruff

• splendid

• ferocious

• bunting

light loosely woven fabric used for flags

• gruff

• reticence

• ferocious

• bunting

being reserved or quiet

• gruff

• reticence

• proclamation

• noble

heavy load

• burden

• disrepute

• gesture

• rummage

Motion of hands or body to emphasize or help to express a thought or feeling

• burden

• proclamation

• gesture

• rummage

to search through

• serviceable

• advantageous

• disrepute

• rummage

favorable, useful

• serviceable

• advantageous

• interject

• illustrate

insert, interrupt

• splendid

• advantageous

• interject

• overwrought

extremely nervous or excited

• burden

• advantageous

• interject

• overwrought

A writer's or speaker's choice of words

• inscribe

• diction

• interject

• splendid