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Maniac Magee
Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| stopped | halted |
| enthusiasm | exuberance |
| revenge | reprisals |
| overjoyed | ecstatic |
| ridiculous | ludicrous |
| to get by threats | extort |
| disorderly | chaotic |
| dependability | stability |
| to bear with tolerance | endure |
| unspecified | vague |
| shocked | stunned |
| gloom; bleakness | desolation |
| limited | confined |
| make known | reveal |
| yelling | bellowing |
| flat | prone |
| jeering | scoffing |
| dangerous | perilous |
| apparent; observable | obvious |
| a person who has extra enthusiasm or desire | maniac |
| a miserable, unfortunate person | wretch |
| crowded; packed | crammed |
| exactly correct | accurate |
| moving in a clumsy way | blundering |
| disturbance | commotion |
| moving forward suddenly | lunging |
| having a very bad reputation | infamous |
| lifted | hoisted |
| shrunk back in fear | cringed |
| powerful motivations or impulses | instincts |
| uproar; confusion | pandemonium |
| looked over quickly | scanned |
| wrinkling the forehead in anger | scowling |
| deadly | fatal |
| rolling or pitching suddenly | lurching |
| choosy; fussy | finicky |
| winced; recoiled | flinched |
| end results | conclusions |
| number symbols | digits |
| to force open or up | pry |
| aloneness | solitude |
| ended | expired |
| to shake with a slight movement | quiver |
| parallel bars for blocking an opening | grates |
| empty | vacant |
| easily understood | apparently |
| came together | converged |
| skill and deception | cunning |
| hung loosely | dangled |
| looking into the future | foresight |
| twisting and bending out of shape | contortions |
| developing and hatching | incubating |
| speaking in a violent manner | ranting |
| one who is against another | opponent |
| a guide or guard | escort |
| acts of courtesy | compliments |
| streaked with gray | grizzled |
| astonished; amazed | dumbfounded |
| complain; grumble | grouse |
| instant; immediate | prompt |
| shabby and dirty | sleazy |
| shaky | rickety |
| a first year player | rookie |
| complete weariness | exhaustion |
| went in spite of risk | ventured |
| farfetched | preposterous |
| indifferent to pleasure or pain | stoic |
| followers trying to overtake; chasers | pursuers |
| weakened; faded | languished |
| unwilling | reluctant |
| gigantic; enormous | mammoth |
| without a specific pattern | random |
| moved like waves | surged |
| violently excited | seething |
| grasped tightly | clenched |
| fantasy; false belief | illusion |
| an attack from all sides | gauntlet |
| concerned with small details | minutely |
| twisted | wrenched |
Created by:
madison.heaton
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