N oun Definition some one who commits sabotage Story sentence how the train to Qual would be blown up by saboteurs 38 Saboteur Verb Definition To grow or move back from a ID: 530197
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N
oun
Definition: some one who commits sabotageStory sentence: “’…how the train to Qual would be blown up by saboteurs” (38).
SaboteurSlide3
Verb
Definition: To
grow or move back from a point Story sentence: “Every now and then …onion could see the pointy roofs of the wizards’ towers leaning against the sky as if they were waiting for him… and then the towers would recede, and he would go with them” (38).
Recede Slide4
Noun
Definition: a
makeshift bedStory sentence : "there was a pallet of reeds and mothy wool blankets"(p.40).PalletSlide5
Verb
Definition: suddenly spring or flinch back in fear, horror, or disgust.
story sentence : "{A white bird) flung itself at the door where Halsa stood, peering in. She recoiled"(p.42). My sentence : Bob recoiled at the stench of the landfill
RecoilSlide6
verb
Definition: To draft for military or naval service.Story sentence: ”He hasn’t paid his army in 2 years. When they rebel, he just conscripts another army and sends them off to fight the first one”My sentence: Efforts to conscript an army out of a small population had failed.
ConscriptSlide7
Adjective
Characterized by or showing
greed; frugal or stingy.Story sentence: ”wizards are sly, greedy, absentminded, obsessed with stars and bugs, parsimonious , frivolous, invisible, tyrannous, untrustworthy, secretive, inquisitive, meddlesome, long-lived, dangerous useless, and have far too good an opinion of themselves.”
My
sentence
: He was too parsimonious to buy the watermelons.
ParsimoniousSlide8
Adjective
Definition: having or showing an excessive pride in oneself or one's achievements.
Story sentence: “’oh stop yelling. Go away. How am I supposed to stop a train?’ Onion said… Halsa looked smug” (52). My sentence: After getting an A on my math test I looked smug.
SmugSlide9
Verb
Definition: to surrender unconditionally
Story sentence: “’something bad is going to happen,’ Onion said, capitulating”(52). My sentence: If Henry does not capitulate and turn himself in to authorities, he will spend the rest of his life running.Capitulate Slide10
Adjective
Definition:
characterized by melancholy; longing; yearning.Story sentence: “Halsa shook off a last, wistful regret, almost sorry not to have been eaten” (58).
My
sentence: After the passing of his grandma, the boy’s wistful attitude was seen more often by all of his friends and family.
WistfulSlide11
Noun
Definition:
violation of faith; betrayal of trust; treasonStory sentence: “There were other stories, sad stories about long ago wizards who had fought great battles or gone on long journeys. Wizards who had perished by treachery or been imprisoned by ones they thought friends” (58).
My
sentence: Betrayal of your country is the highest form of
treachery.
TreacherySlide12
Adjective
Meaning
: dispirited or gloomy; quiet and rather reflective.Story Sentence: "The women from the town had brought food and bedding. They seemed subdued and anxious, and it was hard to tell whether it was the approaching army or wizards of Perfil that scared them most"(67
).
My Sentence
: I was subdued after my dog died because I was
very sad.
SubduedSlide13
Adjective
Meaning
: used to express strong dislike of or anger towards someone or something; wicked.Story Sentence: "There were a lot of stairs this time. Of course the accursed wizards of Perfil would know what she was up to. This was their favorite kind of wizardly joke, making her climb and climb and
climb” (70).
My Sentence
: The accursed man was put in jail because he
committed crimes.
Accursed