Surviving the Applewhites
Vocabulary Chapters 5-8
Vocabulary Words
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)
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
complicated(ADJECTIVE)
… Archie carving a series of complicated lines and squiggles into the legs of a turtle-shaped object.
Chapter 5 p. 36
juvenile(ADJECTIVE/NOUN)
If you go back, they’re going to send you to Juvenile Hall.
Chapter 5 p. 41
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
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
collided(VERB)
Randolph stopped, and Cordelia collided with the CD player as he swung around to answer her.
Chapter 6 p. 47
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
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
deluge(VERB/NOUN)
His words were all but drowned out in a fresh deluge of verbal abuse.
Chapter 7 p. 53
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
perpetuate(VERB)
The Applewhite artistic dynasty and the home school designed to perpetuate it.
Chapter 8 p. 66
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