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The Lightning Thief
vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Agitated | excited; disturbed |
| Arrogant | making claims or pretensions to superior importance or rights; overbearingly assuming; insolently proud |
| Confined | limited or restricted. Unable to leave a place because of illness, imprisonment, etc. |
| Cowered | to crouch, as in fear or shame. |
| Descend | to go or pass from a higher to a lower place; move or come down. |
| Despair | loss of hope; hopelessness |
| Eternal | without beginning or end; lasting forever; always existing. |
| Faltered | to hesitate or waver in action, purpose, intent, etc.; give way. |
| Hallucination | a sensory experience of something that does not exist outside the mind, caused by various physical and mental disorders, or by reaction to certain toxic substances, and usually manifested as visual or auditory images. |
| Hovered | to keep lingering about; wait near at hand. |
| Miserable | wretchedly unhappy, uneasy, or uncomfortable. |
| Overwhelmed | to overcome completely in mind or feeling: overwhelmed by remorse. to overpower or overcome, especially with superior forces; destroy; crush. |
| Pulverize | to reduce to dust or powder, as by pounding or grinding. to demolish or crush completely. |
| Resented | to feel or show displeasure or indignation at (a person, act, remark, etc.) from a sense of injury or insult. |
| Summoned | to call upon to do something specified. to call for the presence of, as by command, message, or signal; call. to call or notify to appear at a specified place, especially before a court. |
| Immortal | not mortal; not liable or subject to death; undying: our immortal souls. remembered or celebrated through all time. |
| Mournfully | feeling or expressing sorrow or grief; sorrowful; sad. causing grief or lament: a mournful occasion. gloomy, somber, or dreary, as in appearance or characters. |
| Paralyzed | to bring to a condition of helpless stoppage, inactivity, or inability to act. |
| Pursue | to follow in order to overtake, capture, kill, etc.; chase. to follow close upon; go with; attend. |
| Skeptically | having doubt |