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The Phantom Tollboth
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| wordplay | playful or clever use of words to create humor |
| peculiar | abnormal or different from the usual expectation |
| wisdom | accumulated knowledge or learning |
| ignorance | a state of not knowing lack of awareness or education |
| expectations | beleifs or hopes concering what is possible in the future |
| doldrums | a boring gloomy place or state of mind in which nothing happens |
| lethargy | a state of having very low energy with drowsiness and a lack of intrest in feeling sloth indiffrence idleness inactivity |
| Killing time | wasting time |
| diction | choice of words in speech or writing |
| surreal | bizarre weird or eerie having a dream like quality beyond real very strange or unusal |
| humbug | a person involed in a act meant trick or deceive someone; someone who pretends to be someone he is not |
| macabre | of dealing with or pertianing to death or the horros of death gruesome |
| corrupts | to cause to become harmed or damaged |
| rhyme or reason | having or showing good sense logic or meaning |
| disputes | arguments or debates things that people do not agree on |