Pre-Unit Vocabulary Knowledge Rating – Chapters 1-6
As you complete this unit you need to fill in this vocab list. Place an x in the appropriate location if you know it, have
seen it, or have no idea. Mark notes of what you think the word might mean, even if it’s a guess and you are wrong.
Words
Chapter 1-6
EXAMPLE
Muster
Know It
Have
Seen It
X
???
Notes
I think you put it on food like ketchup.
To gather or cause to gather… words that he could
gather
Sentence from the book: Page 1 – “What are you doing?” he asked in as polite a tone as he could muster.
Imitate
x
I think it means like if someone says something you
say the same thing
Sentence from the book: Page 1
… his mother had always told him that he was to treat Maria respectfully and not just imitate the way
father spoke to her .
Dismissively
x
I think it mean like when you dismiss somebody
It mean to wave our hand to make someone stop
talking
Sentence from the book: Page 8
… waving her hand in the air dismissively ,as if the making of a boys three best friends for life was going to
be easy
Banister
x
It might mean a band teacher
It means the stair cases rails
Sentence from the book: Page 9
He made his way up the stairs slowly, holding on the banister with one hand ,…
Nooks
x
It means tight /small cracks in the house or little
wedges in the house
Sentence from the book: Page 12
… though he’d lived there for nine years he was still able to find nooks and crannies…
Crannies
x
It means tight / small cracks in the house or little
wedges in the house
Sentence from the book: Page 12
Though he’d lived there for nine years he was still able to find nooks and crannies …
Plaque
x
It is like when you receive a trophy there is a little
plaque on it to say your name and your teams name
Sentence from the book: Page31
There was a plaque attached to the top of the bench bust she couldn’t read the inscription from the
distance
Mahogany
x
It’s a type of wood
Sentence from the book: Page 45
The walls were hardly visible ; instead they were covered with dark mahogany shelves …
Insolent
x
I think its like clumsy manner
Sentence from the book: Page 51,… even though your youth and inexperience forces you to phrase things
in an insolent manner .
Deliberately
x
I think it like something is pretty hard
Sentence from the book: Page 58well, of course its important ,’ said Bruno irritably, as if it was just being
deliberately difficult …
Obliged
Sentence from the book: Page 61
,even though he was not obliged to.
x
I think its like are or your not told to
Words
Chapter 7-10
Prospect
Know It
Have
Seen It
x
???
Notes
I think it means go through something to inspect
something
Sentence from the book: Page 67
Several weeks after Bruno arrived at out- with with his family and with no prospect of a visit…
Escapade
x
Think it means like a graph of how much you pay
Sentence from the book: Page 68
…mother had told him one afternoon when he had related the story of his latest escapade.
Trenches
x
I think its where water goes when it rains
Sentence from the book: Page 69
…us in the trench .
Appallingly
x
I think it means like willing to do something
Sentence from the book: Page 72
Good morning ,little man,’ said Kotler, reaching out and quite appallingly…
Coincide
x
Maybe a coin factory or coin cleaner
Sentence from the book: Page 87
, which for some reason always seemed to coincide with the moment …
Slurred
x
I think it means where words don’t come out where
people can understand them
Sentence from the book: Page 93
…,while grandmother’s was surprisingly slurred .
Retrieved
X
To get/bring something back
Sentence from the book: Page 93
…, the door slammed open and Gretel and Bruno darted back up the stairs while grandmother retrieve her
coat .
Sinister
x
Maybe like a minister
Sentence from the book: Page 98
…, he said in a sinister voice .
Rummaged
x
To dig through something fast
Sentence from the book: Page 99
…, Bruno jumped off his bed and rummaged in his wardrobe .
Forlorn
x
Maybe a type of lawn
Sentence from the book: Page 106
… siting on the ground with a forlorn expression .
Word
Chapters 11-14
Commandant
Know It
Have
Seen It
x
???
Notes
I think it means a professional name
Sentence from the book: Page 116
Commandant and just before Bruno came house to find Maria packing his things ,…
Enuciating
x
I think it means saying something proper
Sentence from the book: Page 119
…, enunciating each word precisely .is that understood?
Ushered
x
Maybe rushing someone
Sentence from the book: Page 121
…father saluted them and ushered them inside,…
Snippets
x
Like a little sneak peak
Sentence from the book: Page 124
… later that night Bruno overheard snippets…
Peckish
x
Maybe a type of like when someone’s hungry
Sentence from the book: Page 135
Im going for a walk and though I might get puckish on the way ; …
Catastrophe
x
Maybe a big problem
Sentence from the book: Page 142
…he was sure that catastrophe was going to strike.
Tubercular
Sentence from the book: Page 146
?... was he tubercular?’…
x
Maybe a sickness
Incumbent
x
Maybe a type of cucumber
Sentence from the book: Page 146
…, when it is incumbent upon all of us to play…
Dilemma
x
A problem
Sentence from the book: Page 154
… Bruno considered the dilemma he was in…
Sarcasm
x
When you say a joke type of thing
Sentence from the book: Page 157
…and thought that sarcasm was…
Words
Chapter 15-20
Medicinal
Know It
Have
Seen It
???
Notes
x
Medicine or type of grow up drink
Sentence from the book: Page 167
, the ones mother used she was having one of her medicinal sherries,…
Anatomy
x
Words or systems or something like that
Sentence from the book: Page 167
… Herr Liszt had brought with him one day when they were studying human anatomy …
Productions
x
A type of play or musical or something like that
Sentence from the book: Page 172
About her were the productions that she and he and Gretel performed at Christmas…
Inconsolable
x
It sounds like something is water prof
Sentence from the book: Page 178 ; Gretel was inconsolable …
lice
x
A type of bug that goes on clean hair
Sentence from the book: Page 184
…had lice in their hair …
Misshapen
x
Something happened wrongly
Sentence from the book: Page 184
…head looked misshapen now that he was bald …
Remotely
x
Like not be close at all to what someone asks
Sentence from the book: Page 186
…she had been remotely friendly with -…
Senile
x
It sounds like when you go insane
x
It sounds like you came up with something
Sentence from the book: Page 187
, who father said had gone senile …
Summoned
Sentence from the book: Page 189
…then one day father summoned Bruno
. and Gretel into his office …
Sensible
x
Sentence from the book: Page 199
… very sensible plan and a good way to say goodbye…
Something can hurt or break or something