Esio Trot Vocabulary

Mr. Hoppy feels jealous of Alfie the tortoise. This is an example of...

• reckons

• envy

• bewildered

The plan to is make Alfie grow and seem bigger than he actually is. In other words, he is trying to _______________ the tortoise.

• halt

• foliage

• enlarge

Mr. Hoppy's balcony stuck out from his apartment building.

It _____________ out from the side of the building.

• jutted

• bewildered

• enlarge

There are lots of flowers and plants on Mr. Hoppy's balcony. It is covered in _________________.

• quivering

• solemnly

• foliage

When Mr. Hoppy talks about the plan. He is very serious, and he talks ______________________.

• bewildered

• solemnly

• envy

Mrs. Silver loves Alfie so much. She _________________ him when she picked him up to tell him the magic words.

• bewildered

• reckons

• embraced

When Mr. Hoppy was __________________ when ran back to his apartment to start working. He was so excited to begin his plan for Alfie.

• quivering

• enlarge

• halt

Mr. Hoppy is determined to make his plan work. He just won't stop until he succeeds. Nothing can __________ his work.

• enlarge

• reckons

• halt

Mrs. Silver doesn't understand the magic words at all. She is so ________________ when she tries to repeat them.

• jutted

• bewildered

• embraced

Mrs. Silver guesses she will try the magic words. She _____________ they might work, but she isn't sure.

• bewildered

• jutted

• reckons