Novel: Mirarcle’s Boys
Vocabulary
Weeks #1-2: January 5th – 15th
Glaring: staring in an angry way
Stereotyping: believing that someone is a certain way before you know them
Deceiving: making someone believe something that isn’t true
Crouching: squatting down
Surge: something suddenly grows or moves forward
Crucial: really needed, important
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Weeks# 3-4: January 19th – 29th
Furiously: Done with a lot of effort, energy or speed
Instinctively: Reacting to something without thinking
Submerge: To cover something completely
Muffled: Something is made quieter because something is blocking some of the sound
Flickering: Getting brighter then darker
Flinch: A quick movement of the body or face in reaction to something (usually unexpected)
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Weeks #5-6: February 1st – 12th
exertion: A lot of physical or mental effort
Coordinating: to organize an activity so that people involved in it work well together and achieve a good result
Accustomed: To become familiar with something and accept it as normal
Jutted: Something that sticks out further than the other things around it
Glinted: To shine back off of; reflect
Perished: to die, especially in a terrible or sudden way