Charlie and The Chocolate Factory: Word: Absurd Sentence: "Of Course It's Impossible!" Cried Grandpa Joe. "It's

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Vocabulary—chapters 1-4
Use the context clues from the sentence to figure out what the
vocabulary word means.
Word: absurd
Sentence: “Of course it’s impossible!” cried Grandpa Joe. “It’s
completely absurd! But Mr. Willy Wonka has done it!
What could it mean? _____________________________________
Word: greedily
Sentence: Many times a day, he would see other children taking
creamy candy bars out of their pockets and munching them greedily, and
that, of course, was pure torture.
What could it mean? ______________________________________
Word: draft
Sentence: In the summertime, this wasn’t too bad, but in the winter,
freezing cold drafts blew across the floor all night long, and it was
awful.
Word: faint
Sentence: The faint shadows that sometimes appear behind the
windows, especially late at night when the lights are on, are those of tiny
people, people no taller than my knee…
Word: stammer
Sentence: “I…I really don’t know, Grandpa,” Charlie stammered.
“Whenever I walk past the factory, the gates seem to be closed.”
Word: colossal
Sentence: “Prince Pondicherry wrote a letter to Mr. Willy Wonka,”
said Grandpa Joe, “and asked him to come all the way out to India
and build him a colossal palace entirely out of chocolate.”
Word: repulsive
Sentence: “What a repulsive boy,” said Grandma Georgina.
Word: scraggy
Sentence: The old people in the bed all leaned forward, craning their
scraggy necks.
Word: hooligan
Sentence: That’s all he’s interested in. But still, that’s better than
being a hooligan and shooting off zip guns and things like that in his
spare time, isn’t it?
Word: ferociously
Sentence: She was talking very fast and very loudly to everyone, but
it was not easy to hear all that she said because she was chewing so
ferociously upon a piece of gum at the same time.
Word: criticize
Sentence: My mother says it’s not ladylike and it looks ugly to see a
girl’s jaws going up and down like mine do all the time, but I don’t
agree. And who’s she to criticize, anyway, because if you ask me, I’d
say that her jaws are going up and down almost as much as mine are
just from yelling at me every minute of the day.
Word: ravenously
Sentence: But Charlie Bucket never got what he wanted because the
family couldn’t afford it, and as the cold weather went on and on, he
became ravenously and desperately hungry.
What could it mean? ________________________________
Word: peculiar
Sentence: “There was a peculiar floating sensation coming over him,
as though he were floating up in the air like a balloon.”
Word: corridor
Sentence: “Now this, my dear children,” said Mr. Wonka, raising his
voice about the noise, “this is the main corridor.”
Word: mystic
Sentence: I am preparing other surprises that are even more
marvelous and more fantastic for you and for all my beloved Golden
Ticket holder-mystic and marvelous surprises that will entrance, delight,
intrigue, astonish, and perplex you beyond measure.
Word: morsels
Sentence: In this way, you will be able to keep yourself supplied
with tasty morsels for the rest of your life.
Word: envious
Sentence: “Think of all the free stuff he’ll be getting too!” another
boy said enviously. “A lifetime supply!”
Word: dervish
Sentence: “Show him the ticket, Charlie!” shouted Grandpa Joe,
who was still dancing around the floor like a dervish in his striped
pajamas.
What could it mean? _____________________________
Word: perched
Sentence: And on he rushed, down the endless pink corridors, with
his black top hat perched on the top of his head and his plum-colored
velvet coattails flying out behind him like a flag in the wind.
Word: balmy
Sentence: “He’s crazy!” they shouted. “He’s balmy!”
Word: intense
Sentence: Charlie put the mug to his lips, and as the rich warm
creamy chocolate ran down his throat into his empty tummy, his whole
body from head to toe began to tingle with pleasure, and a feeling of
intense happiness spread over him.
Word: shriek
Sentence: “By gum, it’s gum!” Violet shrieked! “It’s a stick of
chewing gum!”
Word: astonish
Sentence: He was in a whirl of excitement. Everything that he had
seen so far—the great chocolate river, the waterfall, the huge sucking
pipes, the candy meadows, the Oompa-Loompas, the beautiful pink
boat, and most of all, Mr. Willy Wonka himself—had been so
astonishing that he began to wonder whether there could possibly be
any more astonishment left.
Word: froth
Sentence: Gradually, the mixture began to froth.
Word: basin
Sentence: And now there came a sort of sucking noise, and very
quickly all the blue frothy mixture in the huge basin was sucked back
into the stomach of the machine.
Word: precipice
Sentence: Then suddenly, as though it had come to the top of the hill
and gone over a precipice, it dropped like a stone and Charlie felt his
tummy coming right up into his throat.
Word: frump
Sentence: My daughter may be a bit of a frump—I don’t mind
admitting it---but that doesn’t mean you can roast her to a crisp.
Word: hollow
Sentence: If it’s bad, it makes a hollow sound, and they don‘t bother
to open it.
Word: petrified
Sentence: Charlie climbed onto the bed and tried to calm the three
old people who were still petrified with fear.
Word: rubbish
Sentence: “That particular chute,” Mr. Wonka told her, “runs directly
into the great big main garbage pipe which carries away all the
rubbish from every part of the factory.
Word: scarlet
Sentence: There was no chattering or singing among them here, and
they moved about over the huge black camera slowly and carefully in
their scarlet space suits.
Word: incinerator
Sentence: “Why, to the furnace, of course,” Mr. Wonka said calmly.
“To the incinerator.”
Word: wretched
Sentence: And the one remaining squirrel (obviously the leader of
them all) climbed up on to her shoulder and started tap-tap-tapping
the wretched girl’s head with its knuckles.

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