VOCABULARY

The following words from the story may be unfamiliar to students. Assign several words to pairs of students. Challenge them to create concept webs for each word. For example: 

compost

marrow

flummoxed

kryptonic

maize

enthralled

petrified

privet hedge

bafflement

coherent

galvanized

infinitesimal

ferociously

agog

rummaging

plait

imperiously

staunchly

minuscule

magnanimously

vouch

torso

spirituous

awry

bandolier

mulish

myriad

tantalizing

dolefully

sieve

episode

nonplused

transfixed

ravenously

pummeling

hullabaloo

crestfallen

apprehension

chasm

writhed

fiendish

prostrate

uncompromisingly

raucous

joists

lithely

hordes

aghast

ransacked

taunting

vulnerable

seething

persecutor

omnivorous

escarpment

gesticulating

frenziedly

shied

apparatus

septic

foreboding

smirked

dithered

tourniquet

grimace

peevishly

dire

hectoring

peril