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Surviving the Applewhites

Surviving the Applewhites. Vocabulary Chapters 5-8. Chapter 5 fragile (p. 33) complicated (p. 36) juvenile (p. 41) Chapter 6 inedible (p.42) exaggeration (p. 47) collided (p. 47) sentimental (p. 47) careened (p. 51). Chapter 7 deluge (p. 53) brink (p. 53) Chapter 8

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Surviving the Applewhites

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  1. Surviving the Applewhites Vocabulary Chapters 5-8

  2. Chapter 5 • fragile (p. 33) • complicated (p. 36) • juvenile (p. 41) Chapter 6 • inedible (p.42) • exaggeration (p. 47) • collided (p. 47) • sentimental (p. 47) • careened (p. 51) Chapter 7 • deluge (p. 53) • brink (p. 53) Chapter 8 • perpetuate (p. 66) • invasion (p. 66) • ferociously (p. 67) Vocabulary Words

  3. fragile(adjective) First of all she wouldn’t trust a kid like that with something as beautiful and fragile as a butterfly. Chapter 5 p. 33

  4. complicated(adjective) … Archie carving a series of complicated lines and squiggles into the legs of a turtle-shaped object. Chapter 5 p. 36

  5. juvenile(adjective/noun) If you go back, they’re going to send you to Juvenile Hall. Chapter 5 p. 41

  6. inedible(adjective) … Archie had fixed tofu burgers that Jake had found so completely inedible he’d fed his in bits to the fat old basset hound under the table … Chapter 6 p. 42

  7. exaggeration(noun) It wasn’t true, but is was no more of an exaggeration, he thought, than the story that everybody else had told. Chapter 6 p. 47

  8. collided(verb) Randolph stopped, and Cordelia collided with the CD player as he swung around to answer her. Chapter 6 p. 47

  9. sentimental(verb) “That show is dead boring!” she was saying.Randolph stopped, … “It’s the most saccharine, sentimental piece of tripe the two of them ever wrote.” Chapter 6 p. 47

  10. careened(verb) … there was a squeal of tires from the road. The Miata careened back around the line of trees, scattering gravel in all directions. Chapter 6 p. 51

  11. deluge(verb/noun) His words were all but drowned out in a fresh deluge of verbal abuse. Chapter 7 p. 53

  12. brink(noun) He kept glancing down at the thoroughly crumpled front end of an ancient and rusty Civic as if it were the battered body of a beloved family member. He looked, E.D. thought, on the brink of tears. Chapter 7 p. 53

  13. perpetuate(verb) The Applewhite artistic dynasty and the home school designed to perpetuate it. Chapter 8 p. 66

  14. invasion(noun) I know it would be an invasion of your privacy, but those of us who understand the importance of the arts owe it to the rest of America to give them a taste of what it’s all about. Chapter 8 p. 66

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