The Wave by Todd Strasser Chapters 1 2

“The Wave” by Todd Strasser Chapters 1 & 2 Vocabulary

Befuddled • POS: Verb • Definition: Make someone unable to think clearly. • “ All his life he had been befuddled by machinery” (4).

Inept • POS: Adjective • Definition: Having or showing no skill; clumsy. “He had never been able to figure out why he was so inept in that way” (4).

Overzealous • POS: Adjective • Definition: Too much energy or enthusiasm in pursuit of a cause. “Some said he was just young, naïve, and overzealous…” (5).

Emaciated • POS: Adjective • Definition: Abnormally thin or weak, especially because of illness or lack of food. • “ They saw emaciated men and women starved so severely…”

Menial • POS: Adjective • Definition: Requiring a lot of work and not much prestige. • “ … originally a menial laborer, potter, and house painter…” (9).

Ebb • POS: Noun • Definition: A point of decline. • “It’s leadership was at a low ebb, inflation was high” (10).

Espoused • POS: Verb • Definition: To adopt or support “[Hitler] espoused theory that the Jews were the destroyers…” (10).

Permeated • POS: Verb • Definition: Spread throughout. • “ … the violence-saturated media that permeated society around them…” (11).

Revulsion • POS: Noun • Definition: Sense of disgust or hate. “Her voice filled with revulsion” (14).

Quintessential • POS: Adjective • Definition: Representing the most perfect or typical example. • Quintessential Castle “…an older brother who had been the quintessential model student…” (15). Quintessential Apple