This document defines 30 vocabulary words from the book "The Phantom Tollbooth" including words like: - Tumult: disorderly agitation or milling about of a crowd with uproar and confusion. - Balderdash: senseless, stupid, or exaggerated talk or writing; nonsense. - Pronouncements: act of pronouncing judgments. - Flabbergast: to overcome with surprise and bewilderment; astound. - Quagmire: a difficult situation to escape from.

1. PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH
VOCAB
By: Leah Fischer & Alex Vaughn

2. Tumult
 Disorderly agitation or milling
about of a crowd usually with
uproar and confusion of
voices.

3. Balderdash
 senseless, stupid, or exaggerated
talk or writing; nonsense

4. Pronouncements
 act of pronouncing (give judgments).

5. Palatinate
 The territory under the
jurisdiction of a palatine.

6. Flabbergast
 To overcome with surprise and
bewilderment; astound.

7. quagmire
 A situation that is very
difficult to escape from

8. Connotation
 An act or instance of connoting (to imply or
suggest something in addition to the literal or
main meaning).

9. Undersecretary
 An official who is subordinate to a
principal secretary, as in the U.S.
cabinet.

10. Ordinance
 A public injunction or regulation.

11. Reticence
 The state of being reticent, or
reserved, especially with regard
to speaking freely.

12. Null
 Being or amounting to nothing
;nil ;lacking; nonexistent.

13. Rig
 To assemble, install, or
prepare (often
followed by up).

14. Brougham
 A four-wheeled, boxlike, closed
carriage for 2 or 4 people, having
the drivers perch outside.

15. Chandeliers
 A decorative , sometimes ornate , light fixture
suspended from a ceiling, usually having
branched supports for a number of lights.

16. Timidly
 Characterized by or
indicating fear

17. Ragamuffin
 A child in ragged, ill-
fitting, dirty clothes.

18. Superfluous
 Unnecessary or
needless

19. Conveyance
 The act of conveying;
transmission; communi
cation.

20. Shandrydan
 An old-
fashioned hooded chaise.

21. Charabanc
 A large bus used on sightseeing tours, especially o
ne with open sides and no center aisle.

22. Inquisitively
 Given to inquiry, research, or asking questions;
eager for knowledge; intellectually curious.

23. Symphony
 Symphony orchestra

24. Luminous
 Radiating or reflecting
light; shining; bright.

25. Contradict
 To speak or declare against.

26. Promontory
 A bluff, or part of a
plateau, overlooking a
lowland

27. Ultramarine
 Any of various other
pigments.

28. Podium
 A low wall forming a
base for a construction,
as a colonnade or dome

29. Pigment
 A coloring matter or
substance.

30. Concocting
 To prepare or make by
combining ingredients,
especially in cookery.

31. Pandemonium
 Wild uproar or
unrestrained disorder;
tumult or chaos.

32. Disconsolately
 Without consolation or solace;
hopelessly unhappy
;inconsolable:

33. Knack
 a special skill, talent, or
aptitude

34. Staggering
 tending to stagger or
overwhelm

35. Conferred
 to consult together; compare o
pinions; carry on a discussion
or deliberation.

36. Intimidated
 to overawe or cow, as through the
force of personality or by
superior display of wealth, talent,
etc.

37. Doffed
 to throw off; get rid of

38. Dodecahedron
 A solid figure with 12 faces.

39. Rods
 A stick used for
measuring.

40. Billowy
 Characterized by or full
of billow; surging: a
rough, billowy sea.

41. Strenuous
 Demanding or
requiring vigorous
exertion; laborious.

42. Stealthily
 done, characterized, or
acting by stealthily.

43. Ominous
 portending evil or harm;
foreboding; threatening;
in suspicious:

44. Hindsight
 recognition of the realities, possi
bilities, or requirements of a
situation, event

45. Tattered
 torn to tatters; ragged

46. Threadbare
 Meager, scanty, or poor.

47. Grotesque
 odd or unnatural in
shape, appearance, or
character; fantastically
ugly or absurd; bizarre.

48. Murmur
 a low, continuous
sound, as of a brook,
the wind, or trees, or of
low, indistinct voices.

49. Solitary
 alone; without
companions;
unattended

50. Deliriously
 wild with excitement,
enthusiasm

51. Immeasurably
 incapable of being measured;
limitless: