VOCABULARY

Adem's Cross VOCABULARY - increase your understanding of new and unusual words encountered in your novels.

1. Find the word on the indicated page.
2. Write down the sentence the word is in.
3. Try to guess the meaning of the word by the context clues. 
4. Next double check your guess with a dictionary.

WORD SENTENCE GUESS DEFINITION
EX. demurely
 (p.8)		 "Two girls stood with their eyes cast demurely down." secretly?
 		 shy, but hoping for attention, coyly
1. shards
(p.13)

 

  

 

    
2. incorrigible
(p.19)

 

      
3. monotony
(p.23)

 		  

 

    
4. radicals
(p.24)

 

      
5. activists
(p.24)

 

      
6. fretted
(p.25)

 

      
7. regime
(p.28)

 

      
8. cynic
(p. 29)

 

      
9. truncheons
  (p.32)

 

      
10. ravenously
  (p.40)

 

      
11. drudgery
(p.45)

 

      
12. arabesque
(p. 47)

 

      
13. embargo
(p. 55)

 

      
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