Vocabulary from "The Phantom Tollbooth"

1. By: Sarah Causer and
Frances Kujawski

2. Loiter
Def: To waste time or dawdle over work

3. Quagmire
Def: an area of miry or boggy ground
whose surface yields under the tread.

4. Flabbergast
Def: to overcome with surprise and
bewilderment.

5. Upholstery
Def: the materials used to cushion and
cover furniture.

6. Punctuated
Def: to mark or divide with punctuation
marks to make the meaning clear.

7. Turnpike
Def: a high-speed highway, especially one
maintained by tolls.

8. Cartographers
Def: a person engaged in cartography, or
the production of maps.

9. Indignantly
Def: feeling, characterized by, or
expressing strong displeasure at
something considered unjust, offensive,
insulting, or base.

10. Quizzically
Def: questioning or puzzled.

11. Conduct
Def: personal behavior, way of
acting, bearing or deportment.

12. Commendable
Def: Worthy of praise

13. Ambition
Def: desire for work or activity.

14. Brevity
Def: the quality of expressing much in few
words.

15. Brougham
Def: a four-wheeled, boxlike, closed
carriage for two or four people, having
the driver's perch outside.

16. Superfluous
Def: being more than is sufficient or
required.

17. Frankfurters
Def: a small, cooked and smoked sausage
of beef or beef and pork, with or without
casing; hot dogs.

18. Flanked
Def: the side of an animal or a person
between the ribs and hip.

19. Scandalous
Def: disgraceful, shameful or shocking;
improper.

20. Pitfalls
Def: a lightly covered and unnoticeable pit
prepared as a trap for people or
animals.

21. Ominous
Def: portending evil or harm; foreboding,
threatening or inauspicious.

22. Mirage
Def: something illusory, without substance
or reality.

23. Abruptly
Def: Sudden or unexpected.

24. Promontory
Def: A bluff, or part of a plateau,
overlooking a lowland.

25. Smog
Def: smoke or other atmospheric
pollutants combined with fog in an
unhealthy or irritating mixture.

26. Exasperated
Def: to irritate or provoke to a high degree;
annoy extremely.

27. Chroma
Def: the purity of a color, or its freedom
from white or gray.

28. Inconvenient
Def: not easily accessible or at hand.

29. Luminous
Def: radiating or reflecting light; shining
and bright.

30. Cascade
Def: a waterfall descending over a steep,
rocky surface.

31. Laudable
Def: deserving praise, praiseworthy,
commendable.

32. Vigorously
Def: full of or characterized by vigor.

33. Savory
Def: pleasant or agreeable in taste or
smell.

34. Famine
Def: extreme and general scarcity of food,
as in a country or a large geographical
area.

35. Nimbly
Def: quick and light in movement.

36. Magnitude
Def: greatness of size or amount.

37. Doffed
Def: to remove or take off, as clothing.

38. Accustomed
Def: to familiarize by custom or use.

39. Strenuous
Def: characterized by vigorous exertion, as
action, efforts, life, etc.

40. Simultaneously
Def: existing, occurring, or operating at the
same time.

41. Engulfed
Def: to swallow up in or as in a gulf.

42. Trivium
Def: the lower division of the seven liberal
arts.

43. Disconsolate
Def:
without consolation or solace; hopelessl
y, unhappy or inconsolable.

44. Vengeance
Def: infliction of injury or harm.

45. Gelatinous
Def: having the nature
of or resembling jelly, especially
inconsistency and jellylike.

46. Henceforth
Def: from now on; from this point forward.

47. Forthwith
Def: immediately, at once, or without delay.

48. Reign
Def:
the period during which a sovereign
occupies the throne.

49. hereinafter
Def:
afterward in this document, statement,
and more.

50. Jousts
Def:
a combat in which two knights on horse-
back attempted.

51. Follies
Def:
the state or quality of being foolish; lack
of understanding or sense.