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The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
Vocabulary Chapters 1 – 3
Directions: Use context clues and a dictionary to define each word. Indicate the part of speech (noun, adjective, adverb, verb) and other word forms, if any.
1. salvage
Gilly calmly pinched a blob of gum off the end of her nose. There was no use trying to get the gum out of her hair. She sat back and tried to chew the bit she had managed to salvage.
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2. mutter
“Galadriel,” muttered Gilly, not that she expected this bale of blubber to manage her real name.
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3. prod
Gilly could feel Miss Ellis’s fingers on her backbone gently prodding her through the doorway and into the house.
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4. vengeance
“You just said”—the fat woman’s voice was rising, and her knife was crashing down on the carrot with vengeance—“you just said William Ernest was"—her voice dropped to a whisper—“retarded.”
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5. fanatic
A house run by a fat, fluff-brained religious fanatic with a mentally retarded seven-year-old—well, maybe he was and maybe he wasn’t actually retarded, but chances were good the kid was running around with less than his full share of brains or why would Trotter make such a big deal of it?
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6. lurch
Mr. Randolph’s toe hit a high corner, and he lurched forward.
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7. privilege
But I tell you, this is the most delicious meal I have ever had the privilege of eating.
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8. emphatically
Trotter missed the look, but not Gilly, who smiled widely and shook her half-bulldozed head emphatically.
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9. ignorant
That ignorant hippopotamus!
10. rummage
She ran into the bathroom and rummaged through the medicine chest until she found a pair of nail scissors with which to chop out the offending hair.
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11. seething
She was still seething over the hair combing.
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12. clamor
The clamor of their answers clashed in Gilly’s brain.
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13. fracas
She’d actually drawn blood in the fracas.
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14. smirk
“I would rather for us to be friends.” Gilly smirked.
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15. menacing
She smiled what she knew to be her most menacing smile.
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