The Bad Beginning Vocabulary 5-7

Fat, round, or bulging

• bulbous

• standoffish

• predicament

• culinary

Distant and cold in manner; unfriendly

• bulbous

• rouse

• standoffish

• posthaste

of or for cooking

• wistfully

• immerse

• culinary

• bulbous

Involve oneself deeply in a particular activity or interest

• rouse

• wistfully

• immerse

• predicament

Bring out of sleep; awaken

• rouse

• posthaste

• immerse

• standoffish

With great speed or immediacy

• culinary

• immerse

• rouse

• posthaste

Characterized by sadness and regret

• predicament

• bulbous

• wistfully

• immerse

A difficult, unpleasant, or embarrassing situation

• posthaste

• culinary

• rouse

• predicament