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Ten years ago, we read Madeleine L'Engle's A
Wrinkle in Time to our son who soon thereafter read it several
times himself. Derived from an old Scripps list, here is a
selection of words from that vocabulary-rich, fantasy story. Dave
aberration,
agility,
annihilate,
anxieties,
assimilate,
assuage,
bacteriology,
bilious,
bravado,
centaur,
concussion,
connotations,
contradicted,
corduroy,
corporeal,
dais,
delinquent,
dilapidated,
disillusion,
disintegration,
dubiously,
enthusiastic,
formaldehyde,
furtive,
imperceptible,
impressionable,
inexcusably,
innocent,
jeopardize,
magnificently,
malignant,
marionette,
neurological,
nondescript,
outrageous,
paisley,
pedantic,
peremptory,
piteous,
placidly,
preliminary,
propitious,
raucous,
reassurance,
relinquished,
requisition,
resilience,
scudded,
serenity,
sonorous,
spectacles,
spectacular,
sulkily,
sullen,
surreptitious,
synthetic,
tangible,
tenacity,
tesseract,
tractable,
transmissible,
uncooperative,
unmitigable,
vocalize,
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