Westing Game Ch. 21-30 Vocabulary Practice

Derelicts

• A person abandoned by society, especially a person

  without a permanent home and means of support

• The act of breaking a law, rule, agreement, etc.

• Taking or showing extreme care about minute details;

  precise; thorough

• To overwhelm with amazement; astonish greatly; shock

  with wonder or surprise

Meticulous

• Producing the intended or expected result

• Not capable of being understood

• Taking or showing extreme care about minute details;

  precise; thorough

• Powers of intelligent observation, keen perception, and

  resourcefulness

Astounded

• A punishment done in token for sin

• To overwhelm with amazement; astonish greatly; shock

  with wonder or surprise

• In fact; in reality; in truth; truly (used for emphasis, to

  confirm and amplify a previous statement)

• To stand or come in front of; stand or meet facing

Violation

• Taking or showing extreme care about minute details;

  precise; thorough

• A person abandoned by society, especially a person

  without a permanent home and means of support

• Producing the intended or expected result

• The act of breaking a law, rule, agreement, etc.

Producing the intended or expected result

• Effective

• Unintelligible

• violation

• astounded

Not capable of being understood

• ornithologist

• effective

• unintelligible

• wits

Ornithologist

• A person who catches birds

• A person who takes pictures

• A person who likes animals

• A person who studies birds

wits

• Powers of intelligent observation, keen perception, and

  resourcefulness

• A punishment done in token for sin

• Not capable of being understood

• To overwhelm with amazement; astonish greatly; shock

  with wonder or surprise

A punishment done in token for sin

• penance

• wits

• ornithologist

• presided

In fact; in reality; in truth; truly (used for emphasis, to

confirm and amplify a previous statement)

• effective

• presided

• indeed

• confronted