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Ghost Chadet 9/10
Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| sinister | showing ill will; threatening |
| wheelwright | person whose work is making or repairing wheels, carriages, and wagons |
| battered | damaged by hard use |
| provoked | made someone angry |
| mattock | a large tool with a steel head like a pick axe, but having a flat blade on one side or both sides, used for loosening soil or cutting roots |
| impenetrable | not able to be penetrated or broken through |
| prone | lying face down |
| devise | to think out; plan; invent |
| compensate | make an equal return to; give an equivalent to |
| dismay | sudden loss of courage because of fear or danger |
| hypnotic | causing sleep; drug or other means of causing sleep |
| parlor | room for receiving or entertaining guests; sitting room |
| intricate | with many twists and turns; entangled or complicated |
| knickknacks | a pleasing trifle; ornament, trinket |
| imperiously | commandingly |
| heritage | what is handed down from one generation to the next; inheritance |