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Freak the Mighty 1-8
Vocabulary for Chapters 1 - 8
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |