Among the Hidden

Vocabulary

Chapters 19-21: Idioms/Expressions

• Fertility rate – • Industrialized countries – • Hydroponics – • Rationing – • Anglo – • Germination – • Cultivation – • Cease and desist – • Domesticity – • Settled in for the long haul -

Chapters 19-21: Vocabulary

• Adjudication• Annihilation• Astronomical• Betray• Compromise• Daunting• Droughts• Earnestness• Famines• Genocide• germination

19-21 Vocabulary cont..• Grimace• Industrialized• Malnourished• Notion• Offended• Ominous• Pangs• Preponderance• Preserved• Propaganda• Render• Resolutely• revelations

19-21 Vocab. Cont..

• Scam• Seized• Cultivation• domesticity

Idioms and Expressions• Chapters 1-4:• Pursed her lips – • Umpteenth - • Chiseled faces –• Hog boots – • Sissified – • Double-cross – • Combines – • Bush hog – • Gravity wagons – • Mudroom – • You’re a trooper – • Chapter 5-7• Offal – • Reciprocity – • Bread and butter – • Feeder pigs – • Geegaws -

Idioms/ Expressions cont..

• Chapters 16-18• On an awfully short leash -

Chapter 16-18

• Botching (71)• Bribe (87)• Clout (80)• Congealed (73)• Conscious (80)• Flippantly (78)• Incompetent (81)• Infiltrator (71)• Priorities (77)• Sarcastic (85)

Chapters 12-15

• Awe (57)• Bribery (64)• Competent (62)• Harboring (61)• Pristine (57)• Sanctuary (55)• Sporadically (51)• Taboos (60)• Telepathy (55)• Theoretically (52)

Chapters 8-11

• Apparatus (37)• Chaos (36)• Countered (37)• Guffawed (47)• Incredulously (46)• Scoffed (39)• Taunted (47)• Teetering (38)• Tentatively (37)• Zeal (39)

Chapters 8-11

• Apparatus – “Two teenaged boys lived there, and their deck overflowed with soccer balls, baseball bats, tennis rackets, basketballs, hockey sticks, and apparatus from games Luke could only guess at.” (37) -

apparatus

• I think apparatus means….

What’s behind the yellow box?

Chapters 1-4

• Beckoned (11)• Beseechingly (20)• Careened (13)• Combines (17)• Harrumphed (2)• Hulking (10)• Lofty (3)• Resolutely (22)• Savored (1)• Shrugged (14)• Skittish (5)