1. Vocabulary Words: Project Mulberry, Chapters 7-8 This week’s reading/vocabulary quiz: Tsunamis…Thursday, September 2nd Iron Kids and Cobras…Friday, September 3rd

2. blandadjective Moderate; smooth; not exciting That’s what I call it. Perfect – as in no expression. Perfectly smooth. Perfectly bland. (pg. 72)

3. pardonverb “Excuse me…” “Pardon me…” To excuse; to release from punishment “I beg your pardon. It’s just that when I talked to this young lady on the phone” –he nodded at me – “I was expecting white people.” (pg. 73)

4. scrawnyadjective Very small; bony “But nobody had taken care of it, so it was pretty scrawny.” (pg. 74)

5. allowancenoun An amount that is allowed or granted I had two babysitting jobs coming up in the next few weeks plus my April allowance, and I’d be able to pay her back. (pg.79)

6. debtnoun Something owed, such as: money, goods, or services But to use up all I had…AND go into debt…for a project I didn’t even want to do? (pg. 79)

7. paralleladjective Being of equal distances apart everywhere; two straight lines that never intersect Patrick and I were on parallel tracks at school, which meant we had the same teachers and books and homework and everything. (pg. 85)

8. paranoidadjective Having extreme or irrational fear and distrust of others I was starting to really feel paranoid. (pg.85)

9. plungeverb To thrust or throw forcefully into a substance or place Why did he just plunge right into everything and not even bother to ask me what I thought? (pg.86)

10. lopsidedadjective Heavier, larger, or higher on one side than the other I drew four of them in a row, all lopsided. (pg. 92)

11. bachelornoun He also brought up an aquarium – he’d kept tropical fish for a hobby when he was a bachelor – which was where the worms lived. (pg. 95) An unmarried man