1. Test Friday 12/11/15 **Words from “Monsters are Due on Maple Street”**
Vocabulary Links #
Test Friday 12/11/15
**Words from “Monsters are Due on Maple Street”**

2. Scapegoat
A person/thing unfairly blamed for something others have done; to place blame on
Linking story: The CEO was a made a scapegoat for the company’s failures.

3. Idiosyncrasy
an unusual way in which a particular person behaves or thinks
Linking Story: Her habit of using “like” in every sentence was just one of her idiosyncrasies.

4. Shrouded To cover or hide something
Linking Story: The mountains were shrouded in a dense fog.

5. Defiant boldly resisting
Linking Story: The defiant colonists demanded independence.

6. Transfixed Fascinated
Linking Story: He was transfixed by the TV show about penguins.

7. Metamorphosis change of form
Linking Story: We witnessed the metamorphosis of a caterpillar into a butterfly.

8. Flustered nervous; confused; upset
Linking Story: The flustered bus driver took many wrong turns.

9. Sluggishly ***Take out your questions from last night for HW check!
as if lacking energy
Linking Story: The tired hikers walked sluggishly down the trail.
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10. Converge to meet or come together to form a crowd or group
Linking Story: Students converged in the parking lot to say goodbye on the last day of school.

11. Assent
to agree to or approve of something especially after carefully thinking about it
Linking Story: The leaders gave their assent to the peace proposal.