Phantom Tollbooth Vocabulary (ch. 1-5)

musty

• having a stale odor

• having a fresh scent

• being overly sweet

• being extremely dry

miserly

• generous

• lavish

• stingy

• extravagant

turnpike

• a high speed highway

• a type of bridge

• a rural road

• a city street

dawdle

• to move quickly

• to move slowly

• to run fast

• to walk briskly

infuriate

• to make someone happy

• to make someone angry

• to make someone confused

• to make someone excited

triumphantly

• victoriously

• sadly

• silently

• quickly

peculiar

• normal

• common

• strange

• usual

misapprehension

• misunderstanding

• clarification

• interpretation

• explanation

tollbooth

• a booth at the entrance to a road where a toll is collected

• a type of vehicle used for collecting taxes

• a building where tickets for public transport are sold

• a place where road construction is managed

dejectedly

• happily

• sadly

• angrily

• excitedly