Front Desk Vocabulary Ch 1-10

“My parents must have heard the howls of my stomach, because the next thing I knew, my mother was rummaging through her purse for coins.”

What does rummaging mean?

• search

• excited

• covering

• sibling

“My mom likes to tease that I devoured the whole thing in one gulp, leaving the two of them only a couple of crumbs.”

What does devoured mean?

• choose wisely

• eat quickly

• run slow

• be picky

“He pointed to the thick glass enclosing the front office. That’s bulletproof glass. You see a bad guy come up, you don’t need to worry.”

What does enclosing mean?

• backwards

• over

• surrounding

• behind

“In China, every child is an only child, ever since the government decided all families are allowed only one. Since none of us had siblings, we were our siblings.” What does siblings mean?

• aunt/uncle

• brother/sister

• friend

• family

“We pushed open the door to the office and the receptionist, a blond lady with big curls that bounced as she moved her head, looked very surprised to see us.”

What does receptionist mean?

• custodian

• leader

• secretary

• boss

“She pointed at the maid cart, filled with various colorful bottles of cleaning solutions.”

What does various mean?

• many different

• original

• strategy

• kind of

“That’s not what we agreed to… Says right there in the contract, terms may change from time to time.”

What does terms mean?

• definitions

• meanings

• questions

• details

“She insisted on taking us on a tour of the school, even though, my mom said we didn’t need a tour.”

What does insisted mean?

• questioned

• mood

• asked

• demanded

“I had decided to make customer feedback cards- this way every customer could let us know exactly what they wanted.”

What does feedback mean?

• color

• comment

• paragraph

• option

“Take that, Chinese dough boy!” the sixth graders taunted him. One of them had his hand on Jason’s arm and was twisting it while the other boys were holding Jason back.”

What does taunted mean?

• search

• tease

• play

• tag