Among the Hidden

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Among the Hidden

• Margaret Peterson Haddix

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Novel Notes

• Plot the related series of events that make up
  a story
• Climax- (part of the plot) the turning point of
  the story
• Emotional highpoint for the character

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Novel Notes

• Conflict the struggles between opposing forces,
  usually characters
• Character- the individuals involved in the action
  of the story
• Setting- the time and place, or where and when,
  the action occurs

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Novel Notes

• Tone emotional quality of the words that are
  chosen - the feelings of the author
• Mood the atmosphere or emotional state (fear,
  anger, loneliness, confusion, happiness,
  excitement, jealousy)

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Totalitarian Government

• totalitarian (to-tal'i-târ'e-?n) adj.   Of,
  relating to, being, or imposing a form of
  government in which the political authority
  exercises absolute and centralized control over
  all aspects of life, the individual is
  subordinated to the state, and opposing political
  and cultural expression is suppressed "A
  totalitarian regime crushes all autonomous
  institutions in its drive to seize the human
  soul" (Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.) n.   A
  practitioner or supporter of such a government.

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Democratic Government

• government by the people a form of government in
  which the supreme power is vested in the people
  and exercised directly by them or by their
  elected agents under a free electoral system

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Vocabulary Chapters 1-5

• Defiance- resistance to authority
• Enforce- make sure a rule or law is obeyed
• Forbid- command someone not to do something
• Intervals- intervening periods of time
• Lofty- of a great height towering above
• Rare- unusual uncommon
• Scurried- moved hurriedly
• Savored- greatly enjoyed

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Vocabulary Chapters 6-10

• Cautioned- warned
• Chaos- disorder
• Convince- persuade
• Fatigue- exhaustion
• Lopsided- crooked off balance
• Precise- exact perfect
• Protested- objected to
• Scoffed- jeered make light of something

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Vocabulary Chapters 11-15

• Apparatus- appliance or device
• Boundary- border something that marks a
  separation
• Competent- capable
• Exposed- left open bared
• Harvest- time of gathering ripe crops
• Intended- planned
• Pristine- pure unspoiled
• Solitary- lonely
• Telepathy- communication of two minds with out
  speaking, writing, or gesturing
• Universal- shared by all

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Vocabulary Chapters 16-20

• Annihilation- destroy completely
• antonym- creation
• Astronomical- huge extremely large
• antonym- tiny
• Efficient- using what is required using all
  parts well
• antonym- wasteful
• Permanently- forever always
• antonym- temporarily
• Resolutely- having a purpose certain
• antonym- uncertain
• Triumphant- celebrate success
• antonym- defeated

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Vocabulary Chapters 21-25

• Cultivation- breaking up the ground where
  crops are grown
• Desist- to stop to cause to stand
• Dreary- gloomy cheerless
• Eliminated- to expel to remove or exclude
• Enthralled- to hold to enslave to capture
• Excess- surplus to exceed the limit
• Incredulously- unbelieving showing disbelief

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Vocabulary Chapters 26-30

• Banter- to joke or jest
• Stifled- prevented inhibited
• Propel- urge push
• Observant- watchful alert
• Sequence- order things in a series
• Partially- partly incompletely

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More Vocabulary

• Kathi
• The following vocabulary was used prior to this
  year. I do have tests for the next set of vocab.
• Katy

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Chapter 1 Vocabulary

• Shudder verb- to tremble with a sudden
  convulsive movement, as from horror, fear, or
  cold.
• Harrumphed- verb-to make a show of clearing one's
  throat
• Reassure verb - to restore confidence
• Peered verb - to look intently, searchingly, or
  with difficulty
• Umpteenth adjective indefinite number
• Runt noun - the smallest or weakest of a
  litter, esp. of pigs or puppies
• Recognizable verb - to identify as something or
  someone previously seen, known
• Protested verb - to express strong objection

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Chapter 2

• Loaned verb - something lent for temporary use
• Startled verb - to disturb or agitate suddenly
• Crouched verb - to stoop
• Skillet noun a frying pan
• Insisted verb - to be firm in a demand
• Superstition noun - any blindly accepted belief
  or notion
• Hulking noun - such as a person or object, that
  is bulky, clumsy, or unwieldy.
• Shivered noun - to shake with or as if with
  cold tremble

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Chapter 3

• Careened verb - to lurch or swerve while in
  motion
• Skittish noun - moving quickly and lightly
• Offended verb -to cause displeasure, anger,
  resentment, or wounded feelings
• Deserted verb to leave empty or alone
  abandon
• Automatically adjective - done unconsciously or
  from force of habit
• Slanted verb - sloping thing or piece of ground

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Chapter 4

• Beseechingly verb - to beg eagerly for
• Suspicious adj. - full of or feeling suspicion
• Curiosity noun - the desire to learn or know
  about anything
• Hovered verb - to remain floating, suspended
• Caravan noun - a group of travelers
• Scurried verb - to send hurrying along

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Chapter 5

• Bore verb - to make (a hole) by drilling with
  such an instrument
• Reciprocity verb - mutual exchange

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Chapter 6

• Auction noun - publicly held sale at which
  property or goods are sold to the highest bidder
• Comment noun - a remark, observation, or
  criticism
• Retrieve verb - to rescue save

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Chapter 7

• Linger verb - to dwell in thought
• Rescue noun - to free or deliver from
  confinement, violence, danger, or evil
• Raged verb - to act or speak with fury
• Fatigue noun - weariness from bodily or mental
  exertion

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Chapter 8

• Complaining verb - to express feelings of pain,
  dissatisfaction,
• Vast adj. of very great area or extent
• Linoleum noun - a hard, washable floor covering
  
• Tentative adj. - unsure uncertain not
  definite or positive
• Cautious adj. - showing or practicing caution
  careful
• Perch noun - any place or object, as a sill,
  fence, branch
• Apparatus noun - any complex instrument or
  mechanism for a particular purpose
• Teetering verb - to walk or move unsteadily or
  unsurely
• Blubbered verb - to sob noisily
• Zeal noun - enthusiastic passion

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Chapter 9

• Recovered verb - to get back regain
• Reluctant adj. - unwilling disinclined
• Muttered verb - to speak indistinctly in low
  tones
• Irritable adj. - easily irritated or annoyed

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Chapter 10

• Yeast noun - ferment agitation
• Pathetic adj. - causing or evoking pity,
  sympathetic sadness, sorrow
• Resignedly adj. - humbly obedient
• Disgustedly adv. - a strong distaste nausea
  loathing
• Incredulously adj. - indicating or showing
  unbelief
• Ceremony noun - any formal act or observance
• Guffawed noun -   A hearty, boisterous burst of
  laughter
• Pantomimed noun - gestures without speech

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Journal Writing Topics

• If you only had a vent to look ouside like Luke,
  what would you think the world looked like? What
  would you thingk other people looked like?
• Would you tell you parents about Jen? Why or why
  not?
• If you were in Lukes situation, would you take
  the risk and go to Jens house? Why or why not?
• What would you want your new name to be if you
  had to get a fake I.D?