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Vocabulary 2 (6-19)
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| deliberately | done with full consciousness of the effects, intentional |
| expedition | a journey undertaken with a definite objective |
| sonorous | having or producing sound |
| inevitably | impossible to avoid or prevent |
| deference | submission or courteous respect given to another |
| prowl | stealthily as in search of prey |
| adjourned | to suspend until a later time |
| corridor | a narrow hallway or passageway, often with rooms opening onto it |
| laboriously | marked by or requiring hard or tedious work |
| irrelevantly | unrelated to the matter at hand |
| converged | to tend or move to a point |
| futile | having no useful result, ineffectual |
| neurologist | the study of diseases and disorders of the nervous system |
| partition | something that divides or separates |
| submitted | to yield or surrender to the wall or authority of another |
| unerringly | with error not going astray |
| plaintive | expressing sorrow, mournful or melancholy |
| consternation | great agitation, annoying |
| dismay | to cause to lose enthusiasm or resolution, disillusion |
| confer | to bestow |