This week in class we wrote twenty vocabulary words on bridge to terrabithatia. the words that I did were. stumble miss a step and fall or nearly fall; verb He stumbled over the rock. yelp a sharp high-pitched cry; noun The girl yelped with fear. douse wet thoroughly; verb He doused the pancakes with syrup and began to eat. haul draw slowly or heavily; verb The man hauled all day. consolidate form into a solid mass or whole; verb The witch consolidated. wheedle influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering; She said in her wheedling voice. garbled lacking orderly continuity; verb The name was garbled. hurtle move with or as if with a rushing sound; verb The buffalo hurtled across the field of berries. nip sever or remove by pinching;verb The water he nipped on his face and up his arms pricked like ice. fumble feel about uncertainly or blindly; verb He fumbled around thinking about the question. garnish tastelessly showy; adjective The wallpaper was a garnish. regicide the act of killing a king; verb Regicide she said proudly. lode a deposit of valuable ore; noun He left the lode by the door. canker an ulcerlike sore; noun He had a cranker on his arm.alcove a small recess opening off a larger room; noun He crept down the hall after her and hid behind the nearest alcove to the girls' room door. cymbal a percussion instrument consisting of a concave brass disk; noun The cymbal was played at the dance. mope be apathetic, gloomy, or dazed; verb She was always moping around. cocoon silky envelope spun by the larvae of many insects; noun The boys quivered on the edges of their seats like moths fighting to be freed of cocoons. initial occurring at the beginning; adjective The event was in the initial. conspire act in agreement and in secret towards a deceitful purpose; verb It was as though the weather was conspiring to ruin their short week of freedom.
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