The Phantom Tollbooth Chapter 5 Vocabulary Affair Something

The Phantom Tollbooth Chapter 5 Vocabulary

Affair • Something that has happened

huff • Be in a bad mood; be angry

shrift • Telling what you did wrong so you can be forgiven

short shrift • Character in The Phantom Tollbooth • Figurative language • shrift refers to confession to a priest, who gives absolution and penance • short shrift refers to the brief time allowed for this sacrament to a prisoner before execution.

scarcely • Not quite (almost)

fierce • Great in intensity • Wild • Savage

guilty • You did something wrong

surveying • Looking at

wreckage • Big mess (like after a huge accident)

suspicious • Look like you did something wrong

Innocent bystander • Someone who saw what happened, but • did not do it

stimulating • Make you feel excited

commerce • Buying and selling

imply • Hint at something without actually saying it

Committed • You did it

unauthorized • Not allowed

Sowing confusion • Making others confused

Upsetting the applecart • Making it turn over

Wreaking havoc • Making crazy things happen

Mincing words • Make your words softer (be nicer about what you say, instead of saying the whole truth)

sentence • Punishment when you do wrong • One complete thought when reading or writing

penalty • Your punishment when you do wrong

fainter • Softer (harder to hear)

quarters • Place where you live

Commendable ambition • A good thing to dream of doing

pleasant • Nice, kind

Which • What one do you want?

Faintly Macabre • (mah-cah-br-ah) • Character in The Phantom Tollbooth • Figurative language • Somewhat horrible

miserly • (my-sir-lee) • Greedy (wanting it all for you)

disconsolate • Hopeless and unhappy

• “For always remember that while it is wrong to use too few (words), it is often far worse to use too many. ” (p. 68).

sympathetically • Doing something • because you feel • sorry for someone

frightening • scary

Punctuation mark • Period, comma, exclamation point, question mark, • Dashes • Hyphens

Rhyme and Reason • Two characters in The Phantom Tollbooth • Means that things will make sense again