Johnny Tremain Spelling/Vocabulary

1. Johnny Tremain Spelling/Vocabulary Chapters 1-4

2. Cause to become smaller or less intense • Fetch • Flourish • Insult • Abate

3. Cause to become smaller or less intense • Fetch • Flourish • Insult • Abate

4. Someone who insists on complete obedience from others • nonchalance • piety • autocrat • sluggard

5. Someone who insists on complete obedience from others • nonchalance • piety • autocrat • sluggard

6. Speak to or treat with disrespect or scornful abuse; offend • insult • venerate • grumbling • fetch

7. Speak to or treat with disrespect or scornful abuse; offend • insult • venerate • grumbling • fetch

8. Too many to be counted (often used hyperbolically); countless • innumerable • formidable • mundane • flaccid

9. Too many to be counted (often used hyperbolically); countless • innumerable • formidable • mundane • flaccid

10. The trait of remaining calm and seeming not to care; a casual lack of concern • nonchalance • piety • sluggard • apprentice

11. The trait of remaining clam and seeming not to care; a casual lack of concern • nonchalance • piety • sluggard • apprentice

12. The quality of being religious or reverent; devoutness; godliness • autocrat • apprentice • nonchalance • piety

13. The quality of being religious or reverent; devoutness; godliness • autocrat • apprentice • nonchalance • piety

14. Regard with great respect; revere • venerate • insult • flourish • abate

15. Regard with great respect; revere • venerate • insult • flourish • abate

16. Inspiring fear or respect through being impressively large, powerful, intense, or capable: “a formidable opponent”; tremendous • flaccid • mundane • innumerable • formidable

17. Inspiring fear or respect through being impressively large, powerful, intense, or capable: “a formidable opponent”; tremendous • flaccid • mundane • innumerable • formidable

18. A lazy, sluggish person; slacker • apprentice • autocrat • nonchalance • sluggard

19. A lazy, sluggish person; slacker • apprentice • autocrat • nonchalance • sluggard

20. A person who is learning a trade from a skilled employer, having agreed to work for a fixed period at low wages • autocrat • piety • apprentice • sluggard

21. A person who is learning a trade from a skilled employer, having agreed to work for a fixed period at low wages • autocrat • piety • apprentice • sluggard

22. Lacking interest or excitement; dull • innumerable • mundane • formidable • flaccid

23. Lacking interest or excitement; dull • innumerable • formidable • mundane • flaccid

24. Complain or protest about something in a bad-tempered but typically muted way; make a low rumbling sound • grumbling • flourish • fetch • venerate

25. Complain or protest about something in a bad-tempered but typically muted way; make a low rumbling sound • grumbling • flourish • fetch • venerate

26. Soft and hanging loosely or limply • flaccid • mundane • formidable • innumerable

27. Soft and hanging loosely or limply • flaccid • mundane • formidable • innumerable

28. Go for and then bring back (someone or something) • fetch • abate • venerate • grumbling

29. Go for and then bring back (someone or something) • fetch • abate • venerate • grumbling

30. Grow or develop in a healthy or vigorous way; thrive • fetch • abate • flourish • grumbling

31. Grow or develop in a healthy or vigorous way; thrive • fetch • abate • flourish • grumbling

32. Abate • Antonym: • Increase, Intensify

33. apprentice • Antonym: • Mentor, teacher

34. autocrat • Antonym: • pushover

35. fetch • Antonym: • Drop, free

36. flaccid • Antonym: • Firm, taut, tight

37. formidable • Antonym: • Feeble, friendly, harmless

38. grumbling • Antonym: • Praise, compliment

39. innumerable • Antonym: • Computable, countable

40. insult • Antonym: • Acclaim, approve

41. mundane • Antonym: • Exciting, heavenly

42. nonchalance • Antonym: • Caring, compassion, concern

43. piety • Antonym: • Disloyalty, impiety

44. sluggard • Antonym: • Overachiever, workaholic

45. venerate • Antonym: • hate