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Monsters Are Due
vocab for Monsters Are Due on Maple Street
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| transfix | make motionless or helpless |
| irritation | act or process of irritating, annoying |
| antagonism | hostility; activity or relation between two opposing forces |
| revelation | the act of making known; the thing made known |
| metamorphosis | a marked change in form, shape, or habits |
| intrude | forced oneself in |
| incriminate | accuse of a crime; show to be guilty |
| interject | throw in between other things; insert abruptly |
| reluctant | unwilling or showing unwillingness; slow to act because unwilling |
| idiosyncrasy | personal peculiarity of taste, behavior, opinion, etc. |
| materialized | appear in material or bodily form |
| contort | twist or bend in shape; distort |
| shroud | something that covers |
| illuminate | lights up; make bright |
| silhouette | a dark image outlined against a lighter background |
| fallout | radioactive particles or dust that fall to the earth after a nuclear explosion; after affects |