20 Vocabulary Words

1. Leverage: Power, Influence.a. Sentence: “Seems like it would be harder to dig with. No leverage.”b. From : Small Steps , Page 7

2. Confined: Keep within limits.a. Sentence: El Genius had actually written the letters to scare her into staying confined to her

hotel room. b. From: Small Steps, Page 13

3. Lacerations: A cut.a. Sentence: Fang marks from Kobras, you might say. And they were all highly visible in the

shower room: lumps, lacerations, blue bruises, you name it. b. From: Priscilla and the wimps, Page 1

4. Serpent: A large snake.a. Sentence: The school was old Monk’s Garden of Eden. Unfortunately for him, there was a

serpent in it. b. From: Priscilla and the wimps, Page 1

5. Ban: To stop.a. Sentence: The principal was frustrated that a cell phone ban in his school wasn’t working.b. From: Cell phone jamming principal forced to retreat at B.C high school article.

6. Irate: angry.a. Sentence: Many students, however were irate, and the claimed that their rights had been

taken away.b. From: Cell phone jamming principal forced to retreat at B.C high school article.

7. Ineffective: Not working.a. Now he’s back to the frustration of an ineffective cell phone ban. b. From: Cell phone jamming principal forced to retreat at B.C high school article.

8. Confiscate: Take or seize by authority.a. Sentence: The teacher is allowed to confiscate the cell phone.b. From: Cell phone jamming principal forced to retreat at B.C high school article.

9. Glockenspiel: musical instrument of tuned steel bars.a. Sentence: Nobody asked why it was called a glockenspiel.b. From: Wayside school is falling down, Page 48

10. Disposable: Availablea. Sentence: He could smell the child: a milky smell, like chocolate chip cookies, and the sour

tang of wet, disposable, nighttime diaper. b. From: The graveyard book, Page 9

11. Casement: window opening on vertical hinges.a. Sentence: The real moon shone through the casement window.b. From: The graveyard book, Page 9

12. Torso: trunk of the human body.a. Sentence: He could make out shape of the child in the crib, head and limbs and torso.

b. From: The graveyard book, Page 913. Slatted: narrow strip of wood, metal, etc.

a. Sentence: The crib had high, slatted sides to prevent the child from getting out.b. From: the graveyard book, Page 9

14. Insinuated: Hint artfully.a. Sentence: The stray tendrils of fog that had insinuated themselves into the hall from the

open door to the street.b. From: the graveyard book, page 10

15. Treacherous: Dangerous.a. Sentence: muted light and muffled sound and made the night shadowy and treacherous.b. From: the graveyard book, Page 10

16. Stifled: Suppressa. Sentence: But the fog stifled everything.b. From: the graveyard book, page 10

17. Crumbly: break into small pieces.a. Bod grows up in his fine crumbly graveyard with his dead and living friends.b. From: The graveyard book.

18. Hound: dog used in hunting.a. Sentence: The hounds of God.b. From: The graveyard book

19. Phenomenon: Fact.a. Sentence: He believed that imaginary friends were a common phenomenon at that age.b. From: The graveyard book, Page 42

20. Fluorescent: taking in radiations and sending them out as light.a. Sentence: a splash of fluorescent green or orange or pink and explore.b. From: The graveyard book, Page 42