Uncle Marcos Vocabulary

A person who prefers old-fashioned objects might not want something _______________.

• decipher

• invincible

• contraption

• newfangled

1. A spy might have to _____________a code to find the hidden message.

• decipher

• invincible

• contraption

• newfangled

1. If things do not go according to plan, you might have to think quickly and make______________.

• ingenuity

• improvisations

• contraption

• newfangled

1. You might admire a creative person’s ________________ in solving problems.

• ingenuity

• improvisations

• contraption

• newfangled

1. People might call a strange or unusual machine a ________________.

• ingenuity

• improvisations

• contraption

• newfangled

1. A superhero who is ______________has nothing to fear from a villain’s attacks.

• ingenuity

• improvisations

• contraption

• invincible

to succeed in finding the meaning of something that is difficult to read or understand

• decipher

• contraption

• invincible

• improvisations

impossible to defeat

• decipher

• contraption

• invincible

• improvisations

Machine that seems strange or unnecessarily complicated

• decipher

• contraption

• invincible

• improvisations

invented only recently and, therefore, strange-seeming

• newfangled

• contraption

• invincible

• improvisations