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Vocabulary 2 (6-19)
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
Term | Definition |
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deliberately | done with full consciousness of the effects, intentional |
expedition | a journey undertaken with a definite objective |
sonorous | having or producing sound |
inevitably | impossible to avoid or prevent |
deference | submission or courteous respect given to another |
prowl | stealthily as in search of prey |
adjourned | to suspend until a later time |
corridor | a narrow hallway or passageway, often with rooms opening onto it |
laboriously | marked by or requiring hard or tedious work |
irrelevantly | unrelated to the matter at hand |
converged | to tend or move to a point |
futile | having no useful result, ineffectual |
neurologist | the study of diseases and disorders of the nervous system |
partition | something that divides or separates |
submitted | to yield or surrender to the wall or authority of another |
unerringly | with error not going astray |
plaintive | expressing sorrow, mournful or melancholy |
consternation | great agitation, annoying |
dismay | to cause to lose enthusiasm or resolution, disillusion |
confer | to bestow |