Chocolate Fever
Chapters 7-12
Vocabulary
1. cautiously: having or showing care or thoughtfulness
2. ridiculous: completely unreasonable or silly
3. revolting: arousing feelings of disgust, nausea, or repulsion
4. mysterious: unknown or strange
5. hesitate: being slow to act in doing something
6. declined: refuse participation
7. unique: being the only one of a kind
8. brilliant: intelligent or talented
9. miserable: very unhappy
10. doused: immerse somebody or something in water
11. lopsided: unbalanced
12. acquaintance: somebody known
13. unfortunate: unlucky
14. circumstances: a condition that affects what happens or how somebody reacts in a particular situation
15. fracturing: a break, split, or crack in an object or material
16. dumbfounded: make somebody speechless
17. desolate: solitary, joyless, and without hope
18. subsided: drop to a lower level
19. irresistible: very desirable
20. distributing: give something out
21. rig: a big truck
22. relieved: ease somebody’s burden
23. guarantee: something that assures a specific outcome
24. foil: to prevent somebody from succeeding in something
25. canister: food container
Charlotte's Web
Chapters 7-15
Vocabulary
1. loathed: dislike somebody or something
2. rigid: firm and stiff
3. hysterics: a state of uncontrollable laughter
4. campaign: vote-seeking activities
5. vaguely: no clear in meaning or intention
6. rambled: talk or write aimlessly
7. spinnerets: silk-producing organ of a spider
8. oblige: require somebody to do something
9. sedentary: involving sitting
10. summoning: send for somebody
11. aeronaut: airship pilot
12. mercy: kindness or forgiveness shown
13. exertion: strenuous effort
14. bestirred: start doing something
15. radiant: showing happiness
16. scum: offensive term
17. bewilderment: confuse somebody
18. idiosyncrasy: a way of behaving, thinking, or feeling that is peculiar to a person
19. miraculous: unexpected, extraordinary, or marvelous
20. descended: go down
21. secure: firmly fixed
22. anxiety: feeling of worry
23. rummaging: search through things
24. radial: spreading from center outward
25. alders: deciduous tree
26. midsection: middle part of something
27. monotonous: uninteresting or boring
28. thrashing: physical beating
29. ascend: move upward
30. versatile: with many uses
