Percy Jackson Lightning Thief Vocabulary

What does probation mean?

"'That's it.' I started to get up, but Grover pulled me back to my seat. 'You're already on probation,' he reminded me. 'You know who'll get blamed if anything happens'" (pg. 3).

• test period

• in trouble

• free

• in charge

What does vaporize mean?

Mrs. Dodds was a sand castle in a power fan. She exploded into yellow power, vaporized on the spot, leaving nothing but the smell of sulfur and dying screech and a child of evil in the air, as if those two glowing red eyes were still watching me" (pg. 13).

• grow

• change

• smell

• disappear

What does hallucination mean?

"I was used to the occasional weird experience, but usually they were over quickly. This twenty-four/seven hallucination was more than I could handle. For the rest of the school year, the entire campus seemed to be playing some kind of trick on me" (pg. 16).

• vision

• illusion

• experience

• truth

What does solstice mean?

"'But he may not have time. The summer solstice deadline-' 'Will have to be resolved without him, Grover. Let him enjoy his ignorance while he still can" (pg. 19).

• hot day

• shortest day of the year

• longest day of the year

• sunny day

What does reek mean?

"When I was young, I nicknamed him Smelly Gabe. I'm sorry, but it's the truth. The guy reeked like moldy garlic pizza wrapped in gym shorts" (pg. 30).

• act

• stink

• look

• taste

What does lumber mean?

"If a seagull so much as pooped on his pain job, he'd find a way to blame me. Watching him lumber back toward the apartment building, I got so mad I did something I can't explain" (pg. 36).

• run

• stumble

• walk

• trip

What does holographic mean?

"Then, with an angry roar, the monster closed his fists around my mother's neck, and she dissolved before my eyes, melting into the light, a shimmering golden form, as if she were a holographic projection. A blinding flash, and she was simply...gone" (pg. 53).

• fake

• illusion

• picture

• 3D light image

What does disintegrate mean?

"The bull-man roared in agony. He flailed, clawing at his chest, then began to disintegrate-not like my mother, in a flash of golden light, but like crumbling sand, blown away in chunks in the wind, the same way Mrs. Dodds had burst apart" (pg. 55).

• die

• disappear

• break apart

• mad