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Three Century Woman
Vocabulary Words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| eerie | causing fear because of strangeness or weirdness |
| intersection | place where one thing crosses another |
| pondered | considered carefully; thought over |
| severe | serious; grave |
| spectacles | eyeglasses |
| withered | became dry and lifeless |
| airtime | amount of time on a television, radio, or any broadcast media program |
| Alzheimer's | disease of the brain that causes confusion and gradual loss of memory |
| close-up | picture taken with a camera at close range |
| bombers | airplanes used to drop bombs |
| Pearl Harbor | U.S. naval base in Hawaii; site of Japanese attack on Dec. 7, 1941 |
| torpedo | large, cylinder-shaped metal tube containing explosives |