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Grade 9 English
The Chrysalids Definitions
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Wattle (n) | A material for making fences, walls etc. Consisting of rods or stakes interlaces with twigs or branches |
| Rectitude (n) | Morally correct behaviour or thinking. Righteousness |
| Timorously (adv) | Showing or suffering from nervousness, fear or a lack of confidence |
| Wraith (n) | A ghost or ghostlike image of someone, especially one seen shortly before or after their death |
| Heir (n) | A person legally entitled to the property or rank of another persons death |
| Magistrate (n) | A civil officer or lay judge who administrates the law, especially one who conducts a court that deals with minor offences and holds preliminary hearings for more serious ones |
| Repentances (v) | The action of repenting. Sincere regret or remorse |
| Mutant (n) | a mutant form |
| Implacable (adj) | Someone who is implacable is being harsh and refuses to change their mind |
| Rummage (v) | search unsystematically and untidily through a mass or receptacle |
| Tribulation (n) | A cause of great trouble or suffering |
| Hind-sight (n) | Understanding of a situation or event only after it has happened |
| Germinate (v) | (of a seed or spore) begin to grow and put out shoots after a period of dormancy |
| Dungarees (n) | Pants made of blue denim, blue jeans |
| Baffled (v) | Totally bewildered or perplexed |
| Apprehensively (adv) | Anxious or fearful that something bad or unpleasant will happen |
| Rote (v) | Learning something in order to be able to repeat it from memory, rather than in order to understand it |
| To harry (v) | To force to move along by harassing |
| To beckon (v) | To use a gesture to call someone over |
| Searing (v) | Extremely hot or intense |
| Sullied (v) | Damage the purity or integrity of; defile |
| Scathed (v) | Damage or destroy by fire or lightening |
| Slander (v) | Make false or damaging statements about someone |
| Pedant (v) | A person who is excessively concerned with minor details or rules |
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