Surviving the Applewhites

Vocabulary Chapters 5-8

Vocabulary Words

Chapter 5 fragile (p. 33) complicated (p. 36) juvenile (p. 41)

Chapter 6 inedible (p.42) exaggeration (p. 47) collided (p. 47) sentimental (p. 47) careened (p. 51)

Chapter 7 deluge (p. 53) brink (p. 53)

Chapter 8 perpetuate (p. 66) invasion (p. 66) ferociously (p. 67)

fragile (ADJECTIVE)

First of all she wouldn’t trust a kid like that with something as beautiful and fragile as a butterfly.

Chapter 5 p. 33

complicated(ADJECTIVE)

… Archie carving a series of complicated lines and squiggles into the legs of a turtle-shaped object.

Chapter 5 p. 36

juvenile(ADJECTIVE/NOUN)

If you go back, they’re going to send you to Juvenile Hall.

Chapter 5 p. 41

inedible(ADJECTIVE)

… Archie had fixed tofu burgers that Jake had found so completely inedible he’d fed his in bits to the fat old basset hound under the table …

Chapter 6 p. 42

exaggeration(NOUN)

It wasn’t true, but is was no more of an exaggeration, he thought, than the story that everybody else had told.

Chapter 6 p. 47

collided(VERB)

Randolph stopped, and Cordelia collided with the CD player as he swung around to answer her.

Chapter 6 p. 47

sentimental(VERB)

“That show is dead boring!” she was saying.Randolph stopped, … “It’s the most saccharine, sentimental piece of tripe the two of them ever wrote.”

Chapter 6 p. 47

careened(VERB)

… there was a squeal of tires from the road. The Miata careened back around the line of trees, scattering gravel in all directions.

Chapter 6 p. 51

deluge(VERB/NOUN)

His words were all but drowned out in a fresh deluge of verbal abuse.

Chapter 7 p. 53

brink(NOUN)

He kept glancing down at the thoroughly crumpled front end of an ancient and rusty Civic as if it were the battered body of a beloved family member. He looked, E.D. thought, on the brink of tears.

Chapter 7 p. 53

perpetuate(VERB)

The Applewhite artistic dynasty and the home school designed to perpetuate it.

Chapter 8 p. 66

invasion(NOUN)

I know it would be an invasion of your privacy, but those of us who understand the importance of the arts owe it to the rest of America to give them a taste of what it’s all about.

Chapter 8 p. 66