The Boy in the Striped Pajamas - Vocabulary Chapters 10-12

loss of hope; hopelessness

• forlorn

• crockery

• snippets

• despair

desolate or dreary; unhappy or miserable, as in feeling condition, or appearance

• despair

• crockery

• contradict

• forlorn

the act of establishing the truth, accuracy, validity, or genuineness of; corroborate; verify

• crockery

• disdain

• confirmation

• snippets

china dishes, earthen vessels, etc, collectively

• ushered

• crockery

• snippets

• contradict

spending much more than is necessary or wise; wasteful

• extravagant

• enunciating

• disdain

• forlorn

to utter or pronounce (words, sentences) especially in an articulate or a particular manner

• ushered

• enunciating

• contradict

• despair

a person who escorts people to seats in a theater, church, tc.

• ushered

• disdain

• forlorn

• crockery

to look upon or treat with contempt; despise; scorn

• snippets

• contradict

• disdain

• despair

a small scrap or fragment

• snippets

• crockery

• extravagant

• ushered

to assert the contrary or opposite of; deny directly and categorically

• contradict

• forlorn

• confirmation

• enunciating