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Freak the Mighty 1-8
Vocabulary for Chapters 1 - 8
Term | Definition |
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Unvanquished | not able to be defeated |
Vacant | having no contents; empty |
Scuttle | a short, hurried run |
Limitations | restrictions |
Edgy | impatient and anxious, nervously irritable |
Perspective | an accurate point of view; objectivity |
Confrontation | a conflict of opposing forces |
Strutting | walking with "attitude" |
Sobriquet | a nickname |
Hulking | clumsy and heavy |
Trajectory | the curve described by a rocket in flight |
Sentimental | expressive of the tender emotions: love, pity, nostalgia |
Glimpse | a brief sight or view |
Hunkering | to lumber along; walk or move slowly or aimlessly |
Postulate | to claim or assume the existence or truth of |
Deficiency | incompleteness; insufficiency |
Converging | incline toward each other, as lines that are not parallel |
Evasive | avoiding or seeking to avoid trouble or difficulties |
Persuaded | to urge or try to influence |
Propelled | to cause to move forward |
Demeanor | conduct or behavior |
Depleted | to exhaust the supply of |
Cretin | a stupid or mentally defective person |
Quest | an adventurous expedition |
Resembles | to be like or similar to |
Propulsion | the state of being propelled |
Invincible | incapable of being conquered or defeated |
Expel | to discharge or eject |
Alternatives | a possible choice |
Archetype | a collectively inherited pattern of thought universally present in individual psyches |