The Book Thief Vocabulary

She had an __________ personality, always ready with a kind word and a smile.

• callous

• amiable

• incense

Their search for gold was __________. In the end, they found nothing.

• relinquished

• futile

• amiable

Choose the best definition for the word in capitals: Most people find themselves HINDERED in believing me

• to land on or rest upon a perch

• to be an obstacle or impediment

• a complicated situation

• to be loud, noisy, or swaggering

Select the best denifition for the word in capitals:

Her mouth JITTERED

• to roll

• to struggle with by holding, gripping, or wrestling;

• undulate; flutter

• to move nervously

Select the best definition for the word in capitals:

I watched them TRUNDLE passively on

• to roll (something) along, esp. on a wheel or wheels

• to give careful attention to

• to astonish or shock / a fierce attack

• to burn slightly so as to affect color, taste

Select the best definition for the word in capitals:

It was a part of the mangled landscape

• to be loud, noisy, or swaggering

• ruined

• not harmful; harmless

• harsh; strident; grating

Only, they would have SCORCHED your lips

• to burn slightly so as to affect color, taste

• ruined

• to move nervously

• a long, deep wound or cut

A black book fell INNOCUOUSLY from his coat pocket without his knowledge

• to smile broadly

• harsh; strident; grating

• to give careful attention to

• not harmful; harmless

Choose the best definition for the word in capitals:

• to land on or rest upon a perch

• to move nervously

• undulate; flutter

• to write or draw in a careless, awkward, illegible manner

Select the best denifition for the word in capitals:

The world was SAGGING now

• a complicated situation

• something or someone extremely repugnant or loathsome

• to decline or go down in value

• to move nervously