Monsters are Due

on Maple Street
Vocabulary
Regina Rodriguez
 1.
Transfixed
• part., made motionless
• Transfixed by the
screeching, I almost
forgot I was supposed to
get on the enormous
train.
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2. Reflective
• meditative; thoughtful.
• The dog, sitting still, seemed
reflective as it watched from
the yard.

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3. • make timid or afraid
• Intimidated, I backed away from the
Intimidate bear with caution in my steps.

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4. Instill
• impart gradually
• After being attacked by one, a fear of
parrots had been instilled in him.

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5. Validity
• quality of being firmly grounded on facts
• His statement was so outrageous, there was
absolutely no way there was any validity to
it.

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6. Inexplicably
• without explanation
• Inexplicably, the ground, and everything else for the next three miles,
started quaking and shaking.

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7. revelation
• something disclosed
• What a revelation it was when
she discovered the strange
noise she’d been hearing was
a mouse in her purse.
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8. Metamorphosis
• Transformation
• Metamorphosis, most commonly
experienced by butterflies, is a change that
many insects and bugs go through.

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 Trevor Noah, host of
Comedy Central’s
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9. Incisive Daily Show

• Penetrating
• His political commentary
included incisive quips, so
many viewers more drawn to
his show.

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10. Incriminate
• charge with or show evidence of involvement in a crime
• Tampered with, the video showed an innocent man committing a
heinous crime.

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 11. Idiosyncrasy
• any personal peculiarity
• An idiosyncrasy, or uncommon trait, of mine is my
habit of fixing my hair whenever I speak publicly.

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Acadamia, a show where
every character has a
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12. Defiantly
• openly resisting
• Defiantly, she refused to take violin lessons
and played the drums loudly instead.

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13. Contorted
• twisted out of its usual form
• Contorted, the mound of dough had become a pretzel.

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14. Converge
• come together
• The two paths converged into a single road
halfway through the trail.

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15. Intersperse
• scattered among other things
• Interspersed along the leaves were apples,
appearing ever so often in the tree’s top.

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16. Morass
• perplexing state of affairs
• After I tired applying for the job, I found myself in a morass of
complicated papers.

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