Jasper Jones Chapter 1 vocabulary

Choose the correct meaning: transgression

• Having or showing a wish to harm someone because you think that they harmed you

• a flatterer; one who fawns on others in order to gain favour

• An act that goes against a law, rule, or code of conduct; an offence

• Scornful

Select the correct definition: unflappable

• enclosed within an alien land

• Having or showing calmness in a crisis

• Loss of courage in the face of trouble

• Talking or behaving in a very direct, brief, and unfriendly way

Select the correct definition: portentous

• Of momentous significance

• Impossible to deny or disprove

• To be filled with courage or strength of purpose

• a flatterer; one who fawns on others in order to gain favour

Identify the correct definition: sycophant

• Loss of courage in the face of trouble

• Talking or behaving in a very direct, brief, and unfriendly way

• An act that goes against a law, rule, or code of conduct; an offence

• a flatterer; one who fawns on others in order to gain favour

Select the correct definition: vindictive

• An act that goes against a law, rule, or code of conduct; an offence

• Territory enclosed within an alien land

• Scornful

• Having or showing a wish to harm someone because you think that they harmed you

misdemeanour

• Territory enclosed within an alien land

  disdainful

• A minor wrongdoing

• Scornful

• A natural ability to do something

Select the correct definition: irrefutable

• Impossible to deny or disprove

• A natural ability to do something

• A minor wrongdoing

• To stop or interrupt (someone) and detain them in conversation or trouble them in some other way

brusque

• To stop or interrupt (someone) and detain them in conversation or trouble them in some other way

• Talking or behaving in a very direct, brief, and unfriendly way

• Having or showing calmness in a crisis

• to flatter; or fawn on others in order to gain favour

disdainful

• a flatterer; one who fawns on others in order to gain favour

• Scornful

• Loss of courage in the face of trouble

• A fragment

Pariah

• Walk about casually or needlessly

• To burn with little smoke and no flame

• to abrogate

• an outcast