Glass+Castle+Vocabulary

// The //// Glass //// Castle // Vocabulary (pp. 3 – 36) Directions: Please look up the word in the book, and write the phrase where the word appears.


 * 1) retrospective (5): n. an art exhibit showing an entire artistic phase or representative examples of an artist's lifework.


 * 1) gimmick (5): n. an ingenious or novel device, scheme, or stratagem, especially one designed to attract attention or increase appeal.


 * 1) surplus (9): n. something that remains above what is used or needed.


 * 1) graft(10):n. a portion of living tissue surgically transplanted from one part of an individual to another, or from one individual to another, for its growth


 * 1) vulgar(12):adj. characterized by ignorance or lack of good breeding or taste; indecent


 * 1) antiseptic (13): adj. free from or cleaned of germs; exceptionally clean or neat


 * 1) skedaddle (17): n. to run away hurriedly; flee.


 * 1) toxic (21): adj. acting as or having the effect of a poison; poisonous
 * 2) tumbleweed (22): n. any of various plants whose branching upper parts become detached from the roots and are driven by the wind


 * 1) symmetry (23): n. regularity of form or arrangement in terms of like, reciprocal or corresponding parts


 * 1) gibberish (27): n. meaningless or unintelligible talk or writing


 * 1) immunize (28):v. to make immune (protected from a disease or the like)


 * 1) embankment (30): n. a bank, mound or the like, raised to hold back water, carry a roadway, etc.


 * 1) scraggly (35): adj. irregular; uneven; jagged


 * 1) figment (36): n. a mere product of mental invention; a fantastic notion


 * 1) ornery (36): adj. ugly and unpleasant in disposition or temper; stubborn


 * 1) diminutive (47) adj. small; little; tiny


 * 1) magistrate (89): n. a civil officer charged with the administration of the law


 * 1) cantankerous (146): adj. disagreeable to deal with; contentious; peevish


 * 1) grievance (147): n. a wrong considered as grounds for complaint, or something believed to cause distress


 * 1) indignant (159): adj. feeling, characterized by, or expressing strong displeasure at something considered unjust, offensive, insulting, or base


 * 1) pious (180): adj. having or showing a dutiful spirit of reverence for a spiritual power or an earnest wish to fulfill religious obligations


 * 1) precarious (185):adj. dependent on circumstances beyond one's control; uncertain; unstable; insecure


 * 1) cajole (209) v. to persuade by flattery or promises


 * 1) fleece (219): v. to deprive of money or belongings by fraud, hoax, or the like; swindle


 * 1) irate (232): adj. angry; enraged


 * 1) highfalutin (235): adj. pompous; pretentious


 * 1) destitute (258) adj. lacking food, clothing, and shelter; deprived of


 * 1) façade (258) n. the front of a building, esp. an imposing or decorative one; a superficial appearance or illusion of something

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 * 1) gaunt (260) adj. extremely thin and bony; bleak, desolate, or grim, as places or things


 * 1) creed (261): n. any system or codification of belief or of opinion