Ninth Grade Vocab 1

Resilience

• Complicate

• Abandon

• withstand or to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness.

• Fragile, easy to damage

Pot-bellied

• having a large stomach that sticks out

• Overly-developed

• Slim, Lean, without texture

• to eat a pig

What the author wants to take-away from the book to be

• Main Idea

• Evidence

• Irony

• Theme

to be helpful

• Antagonize

• Alliance

• Accommodate

• Discriminate

Saboteur

• To go against, ruin on purpose

• To help secretly

• To destroy with intention

• An avalance

Expedite

• Concussion

• Mangled

• To move slowly, deliberately

• To move with haste, quicken

Confined

• Objective

• To capture or take

• Within reason, with help

• To limit or restrict

flat-bottomed open boat

• Sensitive Equipment

• Transportation

• Cruise Ship

• Skiff

Conundrum

• mediocre and amazing

• difficult or challenging

• demonstrative and difficult

• positive and uplifting

Mediocrity

• Completely ridiculous

• Average, nothing standout

• Above and beyond

• Middle