1. “Everyone else washed once a week, if that, but no one else was susceptible to scale mites or burrowing chibbets.”(Hartman 59)
2. Structure clue
3. Not immune
4. Accessible or especially liable or subject to some influence
5. Receptive, vulnerable, liable
6. Washing your hands helps you to be less susceptible to getting sick.
1. “I poured myself some water from the ever on the table…(Hartman 58)
2. Structure clue
3. A container with a spout used to store and pour water
4. A pitcher with a wide spout
5. Vessel, pitcher,
6. The castle servants put a newer on the table so I can pour myself a glass of water if I get thirsty at night.
1. “I looked across the sundial lawn toward the egression gate; I longed for bed and rest, but right now I didn’t dare.” (Hartman 57)
2. Structure and experience clues
3. Exit—
4. The act of going out
5. Exit, leave,
6. The movie was so terrible everyone began to egress out before it had ended.
1. “Gazebos and pergolas sprouted all over the garden…” (Hartman 55)
2. Synonym clue
3. A building similar to a gazebo, often found in large gardens
4. An arbor formed of horizontal trellis work supported on columns or posts, over which vines or other plants are trained
5. N/A
6. My favorite place in the garden is the pergola which, unlike the gazebo, has a wonderful view of the duck pond and cherry blossom trees.
1. “Pelican Man rolled his eyes at me balefully; he was agitated.”(Hartman 53)
2. Experience and synonym clues
3. Agitated or annoyed
4. Full of menacing or malign influences; pernicious
5. Menacing, pernicious, vindictive
6. “I will get revenge!” he screeched balefully.
1. “Pelican Man rolled his eyes at me balefully; he was agitated.”(Hartman 53)
2. Experience and synonym clues
3. Agitated or annoyed
4. Full of menacing or malign influences; pernicious
5. Menacing, pernicious, vindictive
6. “I will get revenge!” he screeched balefully.
1. “‘I do not know. I was cogitating upon preparations for river plaice.”(Hartman 23)
2. —
3. To contemplate, ponder or think deeply
4. To think hard; ponder; meditate
5. Contemplate, ponder, reflect, speculate
6. I had to cogitate deeply to think of how to use the word in a sentence.
1. “The newskin opened the canteen and began pouring the water straight into his head. It trickled down his scalp in ineffectual rivulets, soaking his doublet.”(Hartman 22)
2. —
3. Small stream, as in a river
4. A small stream (!) ; streamlet; brook
5. Stream, brook, channel
6. A bridge crosses the rivulet, so loose it almost dips into the water.
1.”People parted before him like the waves before St. Fonnuala. He was still in his funeral weeds, a short white houppelande with long dagged sleeves, but all his sorrow had been replaced by a spectacular annoyance.”
2. —
3. An article of clothing worn at funerals
4. (In the Middle Ages) a robe or long tunic, belted or with a fitted bodice, usually having full trailing sleeves and often trimmed or lined with fur.
5. N/A
6. You will often see cartoons where the king is dressed in a long robe with fur lining, also known as a houppelande.
1. “Two of the Sans had drawn knives, and a third had pulled a length of chain out of his leather jerkin.”(Hartman 19)
2. —
3. A wearable utensil that is able to hold chains
4. A close-fitting jacket or short coat, usually sleeveless, worn in the 16th and 17th centuries.
5. N/A
6. For our medieval themed play, my costume consists of a tight leather vest called a jerkin.
1. “He was a raw newskin, scrawny and badly groomed, all awkward angles and unfocused eyes. A goose egg, puffy and gray, swelled along his sallow cheekbones.” (Hartman 19)
2. —
3. Wounded, swollen, or unpleasant-looking
4. Pale, unhealthy
5. Pallid, anemic, sickly, wan, discolored, pale
6. People with smallpox would develop a pale, sallow complexion.
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