About this book
VOCABULARY
Like the work of other exceptional authors, Natalie Babbitt's book will stretch students' vocabulary. Following are words from the story with which students may need help. Challenge students to alphabetize the words and compile them into a glossary to use while reading Tuck Everlasting.
balmy
submission
patent
tangent
indomitable
petulance
tranquil
eddies
unflinchingly
bovine
perilous
acrid
contemplation
cavernous
exertion
melancholy
mirage
gingerly
rueful
trill
ponderous
bristly
elation
remorseless
intrusions
skittering
plaintive
grimace
anguish
prostrate
exasperated
barbarian
curliecues
jaunty
illiterate
ebbed
self-depreciation
constable
furrowed
remnants
roust
protruding
galling
cahoots
perversely
amber
accommodations
constricted
pruned
gallows
accomplice
burly
circuit judge
staunchly
fidgeted
teeming
revulsion
implored
searing
lounged
reservoirs
surveyed
catholic
colander
metaphysics
verandah
- Subjects:Vocabulary
- Skills:Vocabulary
