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Name _______________________________________________ Date_____________________________ Period_______________The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson Vocabulary Chapters 4 - 6
Directions: Use context clues and a dictionary to define each word. Indicate the part of speech (noun, adjective, adverb, verb) and other word forms, if any. 1. divert
To Gilly’s relief, the blind man’s attention was diverted from his tale of childhood schooldays to the organization of the food on his plate and the eating of it, which he did with a constant murmuring of delight, dropping little bits from his mouth to his chin or tie.
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2. piously
She would read on and on forever, while the two of them nodded piously at each other.
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3. blissfully
He would listen blissfully for a while and then join, turning her single voice into the sound of a choir.
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Name _______________________________________________ Date_____________________________ Period_______________The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson Vocabulary Chapters 4 - 6
4. scurry
She could hear Agnes’s little scurrying steps behind her; then there was a dirty hand on her arm.
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5. schemes
….a part of Gilly's head wanted to get on with her schemes of how to get Mr. Randolph’s money
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6. enthralled
She slid down beside him, and when his eyes checked her out sideways, she gave a quiet, sisterly kind of smile and pretended to be enthralled with Big Bird.
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7. infuriate
It was infuriating to find herself behind in almost every subject, but she knew that the fault lay in Hollywood Gardens Elementary and not in herself.
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Name _______________________________________________ Date_____________________________ Period_______________The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson Vocabulary Chapters 4 - 6Word forms: ______________________________________________________________ Synonym __________________________________
8. tentative
Once Agnes ventured a tentative “Hey, Gil,” but Gilly spun around with such a frightening look that any further words withered.
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9. benign
Gilly smiled benignly. “We’ll see,” she said. “We’ll just see how it goes.”
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10. indifference
But other days, Miss Harris’s indifference grated on Gilly.
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11. desperation
W.E.’s eyes searched the room in desperation.
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Name _______________________________________________ Date_____________________________ Period_______________The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson Vocabulary Chapters 4 - 6Word forms: ______________________________________________________________ Synonym__________________________________
12. delectable
Baby-Face Teague, the frog-eyed filcher. Wild-eyed William, the goose-brained godfather. The possibilities were unlimited and delectable.Definition: ______________________________________________________________________________________ POS ________________
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13. clamber
She clambered up on the concrete post that held the porch railing in place and raised her arm.
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14. tolerate
As long as she had been behind the mask, she tolerated this failure to treat her in a special manner, but now, even the good-morning smile seemed to echo the math computer’s “Hello, Gilly number 58706, today we will continue our study of fractions.”
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Name _______________________________________________ Date_____________________________ Period_______________The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson Vocabulary Chapters 4 - 6
15. cajole
It was rather comfortable to go to school with no one yelling or cajoling—to know that your work was judged on its merits and was not affected by the teacher’s personal opinion of the person doing the work.
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