Because of Winn-Dixie Vocabulary Quiz

beyond hope, reckless because of despair

• Hopeful
• Careful
• Desperately

• Reckless

to move unsteadily, seesaw

• teeter
• dramatic

• balance
• routine

to play an instrument by running your fingers lightly across the strings

• peculiar

• drizzle

• tapping
• strummed

someone who has committed a crime

• routine

• criminal
• manufactured

• preacher

doing something again and again in the same order

• Dramatic

• Peculiar

• Looping
• Routine

exciting; full of action or feeling

• boring
• dramatic

• thrilling
• dull

to rain in very small drops

• drizzle
• downpour
• raining cats and dogs

• thunderstorm

sad or gloomy

• happy
• cheerful
• excited
• melancholy

strange, different from usual

• peculiar

• similar
• regular
• common

to make things by hand or machine

• teeter

• strummed

• routine

• manufactured