Excerpts from "A Wrinkle in Time"

Chapter 6 is entitled "The Happy Medium" and Chapter 12 is entitled "The Foolish and the Weak." If you don't mind taking a wrinkly journey through different worlds, through sameness, darkness, and joy, read this list before jumping into the full novel by Madeleine L'Engle.

Here are all the word lists to support the reading of Grade 8 Unit 1's texts from SpringBoard's Common Core ELA series: A Wrinkle in Time, The Drummer Boy of Shiloh, The Odyssey, A Man, Soldier home, Sonnet 116, Where I Find My Heroes, White House Funeral Sermon, O Captain! My Captain!, Frederick Douglass, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, A Definition of a Gentleman
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  1. simultaneously
    at the same instant
    Then the doors of all the houses opened simultaneously, and out came women like a row of paper dolls.
  2. furtive
    marked by quiet and caution and secrecy
    But he bounced it rather badly and with no particular rhythm, sometimes dropping it and running after it with awkward, furtive leaps, sometimes throwing it up into the air and trying to catch it.
  3. stifle
    smother or suppress
    She looked wildly up and down the street, saw the children and put her hand to her mouth as though to stifle a scream, grabbed the little boy and rushed indoors with him.
  4. devour
    destroy completely
    Immediately Meg was swept into darkness, into nothingness, and then into the icy devouring cold of the Black Thing.
  5. extinguish
    put out, as of fires, flames, or lights
    In the same window of each house was a light, and as Meg walked down the street all the lights were extinguished simultaneously.
  6. permeate
    spread or diffuse through
    She gasped for breath, for breath in her own rhythm, not the permeating pulsing of IT.
  7. inexorable
    impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, or reason
    She could feel the inexorable beat within her body, controlling her heart, her lungs.
  8. reiterate
    say, state, or perform again
    Charles Wallace was crouched beside IT, his eyes still slowly twirling, his jaw still slack, as she had seen him before, with a tic in his forehead reiterating the revolting rhythm of IT.
  9. unadulterated
    without qualification
    No, it was not anger, it was loathing; it was hatred, sheer and unadulterated, and as she became lost in hatred she also began to be lost in IT.
  10. miasma
    an unwholesome atmosphere
    The red miasma swam before her eyes; her stomach churned in ITs rhythm.
  11. vestige
    an indication that something has been present
    With the last vestige of consciousness she jerked her mind and body.
  12. incapable
    not having the temperament or inclination for
    But she, in all her weakness and foolishness and baseness and nothingness, was incapable of loving IT.
  13. resentful
    full of or marked by indignant ill will
    A whirl of darkness. An icy cold blast. An angry, resentful howl that seemed to tear through her.
  14. exuberance
    joyful enthusiasm
    He dashed across the lawn to join in the joy, and almost knocked them all over with the exuberance of his greeting.
  15. tangible
    perceptible by the senses, especially the sense of touch
    Then there was a whirring, and Mrs Whatsit, Mrs Who, and Mrs Which were standing in front of them, and the joy and love were so tangible that Meg felt that if she only knew where to reach she could touch it with her bare hands.
Created on 十二月 14, 2014 (updated 十二月 14, 2014)

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