Maniac Magee Chps 17 Vocab

1

• Maniac Magee Chps 1-7 Vocab
• bellowing- speak in a loud, often angry voice
• infamous- widely known usually for something bad
• suffice- sufficient enough
• maw-jaws mouth throat
• emanations- that which comes forth, originates
• stupefied- to amaze
• flinched- draw back
• pandemonium- wild disorder, uproar

2

• Listening Quiz
• When was Spinelli born and where?
• What was his first published piece of writing?
• How long did it take Jerry to write his first
  book?
• How many books did Spinelli write that were NOT
  accepted?
• How long did he go without having any books
  published?

3

• Maniac Magee Chps 8-14 Vocab
• He loved the silence and solitude.
• solitude- stillness peace quiet
• He loved the Fourth of July block party, when
  the whole East End converged for a day and night
  of games and music.
• 2. converged- to come together

4

• Maniac Magee Chps 15-21 Vocab
• poleax- to hit
• aardvark- anteater
• unbeknownst- not known
• croaking- deep, hoarse sound
• ranting- wild, excited speech
• hibernating- sleep through winter
• sneered- scornful look contempt
• incubating- sit on to keep warm
• eons- very long period of time
• contortions- twists
• tangle- mass of knots and twists
• weathering- action of weather on something
• testimony- proof evidence
• snarling- angry expression

5

• Chapters 22-32
• Lumbering move slowly and swaggerly
• Frayed old tired
• Sleazy not respectable cheap
• Robust new revitalized
• Rickety old worn out
• Blarney baloney not true
• Geezer old person
• Grouse complain
• Pommel horse horn on saddle
• Preposterous ridiculous
• Filigree pure
• Stoic - true

6

• Chapters 33-37
• Satchel small bag
• Careening falling down
• Desolation devastation ruin
• Gaunt very thin
• Retaliated to get back at
• Urchins small elf like creatures
• Lambasting to yell loudly
• Smithereens little pieces
• Mongrel stray dog
• Jackals birds/vultures
• Carrion meat
• Prone likely to
• Pelting hurling down
• Portal door or entry way
• Perilous - dangerous

7

• Vocab 38-46
• Marooned stranded
• Smirky feel like one has waited too long
• Mossy tired
• Exuberance happy
• Reprisals harm to enemy
• Ludicrous ridiculous
• Extort blackmail
• Shenanigans pranks
• Protruding to stick out
• Satchel bag
• Voltage power
• Gauntlet path
• Dovetailed two pieces cut to fit together

14. Diverged to come apart 15. Trestle
platform attached to railroad tracks
8

• Test Review
• Parts II and III
• Careened
• Robust
• Stoic
• Extorted
• Marooned
• Reprisal
• Blarney
• Trestle
• Ludicrous
• Retaliated
• Lumbering
• Perilous
• Urchins

14. Preposterous 15. Dove-tailed 16. Pelting 17.
Voltage 18. Frayed 19. Lambasting 20.
Desolation 21. Sleazy 22. Prone 23. Gauntlet 24.
Protruding 25. carrion