Tuck Everlasting Vocabulary
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- colander
- a bowl shaped kitchen utensil with perforations for draining liquids and rinsing food
- wistful
- showing longing or sadness
- tangent
- a sudden change of course
- roust
- stirred or drove out; brought out of sleep
- plaintive
- sad
- ordeal
- a severely difficult experience
- companionable
- friendly
- peculiar
- odd
- mirage
- something that seems real but is not
- entranced
- enchanted, fascinated
- revulsion
- extreme disgust
- illiterates
- those who do not know how to read or write
- exasperated
- irritated, annoyed
- scoured
- cleaned by hard rubbing with something rough
- prostrate
- exhausted
- implored
- begged
- vanity
- too much concern for one's appearance
- accomplice
- a person who knowingly helps another in an unlawful act
- parson
- clergyman, or an ordained person of the church
- galling
- causing extreme irritation
- shimmered
- shone with an unsteady light
- exultant
- triumphant
- wheezed
- breathed hard with a whistling sound
- insistent
- demanding
- grimace
- to twist the face in fun or in a look of pain or disgust
- extraordinary
- very unusual
- apprehension
- a feeling of uneasiness about the future
- petulance
- unreasonable irritability
- sedately
- calmly
- elation
- high spirits
- forlorn
- pitiful
- accomodations
- lodgings
- hoarding
- storing away
- in cahoots
- in partnership, usually doing something dishonest
- rueful
- regretful or sorrowful
- earnestly
- seriously
- self-deprecation
- expressing lack of importance of one's self
- indomitable
- not easily discouraged or defeated