A Wrinkle in Time Wonder Words chapter: 1-6

Question 1

Frenzied

Answer 1

frantic “freaking out”

Question 2

Scudded

Answer 2

to run or move quickly

Question 3

roughhoused

Answer 3

rowdy play or behavior

Question 4

rickety

Answer 4

fragile, fall apart or break easily

Question 5

constable

Answer 5

public officer in a town with less authority than a sheriff

Question 6

preliminaries

Answer 6

something that leads to

Question 7

diction

Answer 7

style of speaking or writing

Question 8

unceremoniously

Answer 8

hasty, abrupt, without ceremony

Question 9

flounced

Answer 9

to go impatiently, exaggerated movements

Question 10

physicist

Answer 10

a specialist in physics

Question 11

antagonistic

Answer 11

unfriendly, hostile, opposing

Question 12

tractable

Answer 12

controlled

Question 13

apt

Answer 13

likely

Question 14

confidingly

Answer 14

trustful

Question 15

inadvertently

Answer 15

unintentional

Question 16

suspicious

Answer 16

questionable

Question 17

wryly

Answer 17

devious, crooked

Question 18

indignant

Answer 18

expressing strong displeasure

Question 19

infinite

Answer 19

immeasurably great

Question 20

sullen

Answer 20

ill humor by gloomy silence

Question 21

dubiously

Answer 21

doubtful

Question 22

gnarled

Answer 22

bent/twisted

Question 23

authoritative

Answer 23

having due authority

Question 24

elliptic

Answer 24

round

Question 25

reassuring

Answer 25

to restore confidence

Question 26

ineffable

Answer 26

incapable of being expressed

Question 27

vaguely

Answer 27

not clear

Question 28

gales

Answer 28

a noisy outburst

Question 29

ephemeral

Answer 29

short lived

Question 30

flatly

Answer 30

flat out, without hesitation

Question 31

perturbed

Answer 31

agitate; annoyed; tired of you

Question 32

dimensions

Answer 32

extension in time

Question 33

intolerable

Answer 33

unendurable, not tolerable

Question 34

substantial

Answer 34

strong, real, firm

Question 35

nondescript

Answer 35

not recognized

Question 36

mauve

Answer 36

bluish purple

Question 37

dwindled

Answer 37

to become smaller, shrink

Question 38

anticlimax

Answer 38

less important, weak

Question 39

ambrosia

Answer 39

a fruit dessert, delicious

Question 40

distressed

Answer 40

suffering

Question 41

impersonal

Answer 41

lacking emotion or warmth

Question 42

tangible

Answer 42

capable of being touched

Question 43

precipitously

Answer 43

extreme

Question 44

unmitigable

Answer 44

unable to lessen the intensity or force