The Unteachables Chapters 5-6 Vocabulary

What is the definition of conjure?

• To scare.

• Call upon a spirit or ghost to appear, by means of a magic ritual.

• To contort one's body.

• A type of disease.

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Cusp means...

• A point of transition.

• To go in the wrong direction.

• To hold someone up.

• An object you drink from.

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What is the definition of defiant?

• To disobey.

• To disagree.

• Showing a disposition to challenge, resist, or fight.

• To have a bad attitude.

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Endure means...

• To see your way out of the darkness.

• The ability to fight.

• To give up easily.

• To remain firm under suffering or misfortune without misleading.

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What is the definition of experience?

• The name of a street.

• Direct observation of or participation in events as a basis of knowledge.

• To go through something.

• A sports drink.

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Expression means...

• An ice cream flavor.

• A classification for a clown.

• The look on a persons face.

• The process of making known one's thoughts or feelings.

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What is the definition of piqued?

• A pig.

• Stimulate interest or curiosity.

• To rise up.

• A pyramid in Egypt.

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What does retorts mean?

• To make someone scared.

• To make a reply to.

• To keep talking.

• To make pig-like noises.

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What is the definition of scarcely?

• To not have enough of.

• To walk slowly behind someone.

• Barely, hardly; not quite.

• To go without.

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What is the definition of screech?

• The howl of a wolf.

• The sound of rain during a thunderstorm.

• A type of car.

• A high shrill piercing cry usually expressing pain or terror.

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