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Vocabulary
Naming of Names/Maple Street
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Submerged | sunk; covered with liquid |
| Amiss | wrong or improper |
| Convivial | sociable or friendly |
| Anachronism | something out of its proper time in history, like a television in the Middle Ages or penicillin in ancient Rome |
| Forlorn | hopeless, deserted, abandoned |
| Receded | withdrew; became more distant |
| Dwindle | shrink, as in to lessen in quantity |
| Flimsy | poorly made; easily broken or damaged |
| Climes | regions |
| Transfixed | to shock or terrify somebody so much as to induce a momentary inability to move |
| Intelligible | capable of being understood, understandable |
| Assent | to agree to something |
| Intimidate | to frighten somebody into doing or not doing something |
| Defiant | openly disobedient, tending to confront and challenge |
| Idiosyncrasy | quirk, a way of behaving that is peculiar to an individual or group possible source of danger |
| Converging | To meet, to reach the same point coming from different directions |
| Explicit | clear and obvious |
| Variations | the degree to which something differs |
| Superstition | irrational, belief in the magical effects of a specific action or ritual, especially in the likelihood that good or bad luck will result from performing i |
| Scapegoat | somebody who is made to take the blame for others |
| Metamorphosis | a change of physical form |
| Revelation | Information revealed |
| fluster | To make or become nervous |
| Insomnia | difficulty in sleeping |