Where the Mountain Meets the Moon Vocabulary ch. 1-12

Far away from here, following the Jade River, there was once a black mountain that cut into the sky like a ___________ piece of rough metal.

• jade

• jagged

• juniper

• jeering

Ma sighed a great deal, an impatient noise usually accompanied with a frown at their rough clothes, rundown house, or __________ food.

• mousy

• many

• meager

• monstrous

She was very proud of her power and of the ___________ the people of earth paid her.

• righteous

• reasonable

• responsibility

• reverence

They were horrified at the __________ and misery on earth.

• answer

• anguish

• antonym

• antithesis

It was planting season, which was especially ____________.

• grouchy

• grumbling

• grueling

• great

All feared his ___________, and when he roared his orders the people trembled.

• wrath

• watch

• weary

• waking

"You can answer any question in the world?" the magistrate _________.

• skewered

• scoured

• scuffed

• scoffed

“I do,” Minli said, __________ and eager.

• enraged

• engaged

• enthralled

• enraptured

Now that his son has married the king's daughter, Magistrate Tiger will do anything to _________ his power and overstretch his authority.

• flaunt

• flight

• flounder

• flail

"May I present this, which I humbly painted in _________ to the great magistrate's rule."

• trounce

• tribute

• triangle

• treetop