A Wrinkle in Time Chapters 1-2 Vocabulary Test

"In social studies Meg was asked to name the principal imports and exports of Nicaragua and though she had looked them up dutifully the evening before, now she could remember none of them. The teacher was sarcastic, the rest of the class laughed, and she flung herself down in a seat of fury."

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" 'Miss Porter tells me you were inexcusably rude. ' "

In this sentence, the word "inexcusably" means...

"Everybody was asleep. Everybody except Meg. Even Charles Wallace, the 'dumb baby brother,' who had an uncanny way of knowing when she was awake and unhappy,..."

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"Prodigious," Mrs. Murry said. "Meg, come let me look at that bruise."

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" ' Stop bellowing, ' " Mr. Jenkins said sharply."

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"How right he had been about that, though he himself had left before Charles Wallace began to speak, suddenly, with none of the usual baby preliminaries, using entire sentences."

In this sentence, the word preliminaries refers to...

"He looked very small and vulnerable sitting there alone in the big old-fashioned kitchen, a blond little boy in faded blue Dr. Dentons,..."

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"They hadn't caught him, and maybe he was heading for the Murry's house right now, isolated on a back road as it was;"

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"Try to be a little less antagonistic. Maybe your work will improve..."

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"Dennys was snoring. Sandy murmured something about a baseball and subsided."

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"Mother let you have the attic because you're the oldest. It is a privilege, not a punishment."

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"You asked to have the attic bedroom, she told herself savagely."

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" ' If you have some liniment I'll put it on my dignity, ' Mrs. Whatsit said, still supine..."

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"Mr. Jenkins sighed. 'Do you enjoy being the most belligerent, uncooperative child in school? ' "

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"Ever few moments the moon ripped through them, creating wraithlike shadows that raced along the ground."

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In a Wrinkle in Time, a tesseract is...

" 'Okay, I will.' Meg flounced out.

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"She dressed hurriedly, picked up the kitten still curled up on the bed, and dumped it unceremoniously on the floor."

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" ' I hate being an oddball,' " Meg said.

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