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Vocab Unit 2
Directions: For each word, I’ve provided (a) part of speech and definition, and (b) the sentence from the book
where it’s used. Next to (c), either make up a sentence of your own that uses the words or draw a picture that
demonstrates the meaning of the word.
1a. complacent - adj. self-satisfied
b. “Jess was glad to escape to the shed and the complacent company of Miss Bessie”
c.
2a. dregs - n. last leftovers
b. “Or maybe it was the time of year-the last dregs of winter spoiling the taste of everything.”
c.
3a. dumbfounded- adj. shocked; speechless
b. “He didn't mean it in a daring way, he was just dumbfounded by the idea of Leslie being scared.”
c.
4a. foundling - n. orphan
b. “Maybe, he thought, I was a foundling, like in the stories. Way back when the creek had water in it, I came
floating down it in a wicker basket…”
c.
5a. garish- adj. showy; tacky
b. “Next they got the old wallpaper off the living-room wall — all five garish layers of it.”
c.
6a. parapets- n. castle walls
b. “In his head he drew the shadowy castle with the tortured prince pacing the parapets.”
c.
7a. prescribed - adj. required
b. “Terabithia was not really Terabithia unless one entered by the prescribed method .”
c.
8a. regicide- n. murder of a king or queen
b. "’Hey, girl, you kill the king of Terabithia, and you're in trouble.’
‘Regicide,’ she said proudly.”
c.
9a. speculation - n. thinking; wondering
b. “Christmas was almost a month away, but at Jess's house the girls were already obsessed with it. This year
Ellie and Brenda both had boyfriends at the consolidated high school and the problem of what to give them and
what to expect from them was cause of endless speculation and fights.”
c.
10a. vile- adj. evil; foul; filthy
b. "’May Belle's right.’ Jess reached down into the deepest pit of his mind. ‘It’s because we're all vile sinners
God made Jesus die.’"
c.