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	My Digital Vocabulary Glossary
Source	Word	How it was used in the book.	What the dictionary says.
Loser	valve	He goes into the hospital and they put him to sleep and the doctor turns the upside down valve in his stomach right side up.
Loser	furnace	It dwells in the darkness: the Furnace Monster.
Loser	boredom	Perhaps if Zinkoff had not had two weeks to build up a good head of boredom, taking tests would not have occurred to him.
Loser	constraints	There are no other constraints.
Loser	giddy	Giddy with freedom and speed he runs to the end of the block turned right and runs on.
Loser	rekindle	Things keep happening that rekindle the excitement of the first day.
Loser	harnesses	Himself he harnesses to the great leather bag.
Loser	plunks	He straps on the bag , plunks on his helmet and hits the sidewalk.
Loser	slate	With a new-year; crispy cut length of chalk, she writes in large numbers on the green slate: 180.
Loser	baling wire	He keeps patching it up with duct tape, baling wire and chewing gum.
Loser	merely	He merely
Loser	glimpses	He lowers himself another step... and thinks he glimpses the furry edge of a flank pulling itself out of sight.
Loser	misinformed	Has Zinkoff been misinformed?
Loser	boggle	Zinkoff's eyes boggle.
Loser	slurry	Above him a slurry.
Loser	acquires	In the summer between first and second grade Zinkoff acquire two new friends.
Loser	solitary	He searched sky and ground for evidence of bad weather, but could not find so much as a solitary hailstone
Loser	triumph	He turns to his father in the car and raises his hand in triumph
National Geographic Explorer	inner planet	Our home is the largest or four inner planets.
National Geographic Explorer	lurking	The germs that make you sick are lurking everywhere.
National Geographic Explorer	stowaway	These tiny stowaways can cause big trouble.
National Geographic Explorer	reed	Tiny reed frogs hide in water lily flowers.
National Geographic Explorer	atmosphere	They whip around the atmosphere.
National Geographic Explorer	pectoral fin	I see the white tips of each pectoral fin.
National Geographic Explorer	tonic immobility	It's known as tonic immobility.
National Geographic Explorer	carrion	They even eat carrion, or dead animals.
War Comes to Willy Freeman	hunkered	Just then one of the men hunkered down beside me, he was so close to mine I could hear him breathe and see the whites of his eyes shine in the starlight.
War Comes to Willy Freeman	bayonets	What I remembered most was the way the sun flashed on the bayonets.
War Comes to Willy Freeman	furloughed	They'd furloughed the men home to get fresh clothes and new shoes.
War Comes to Willy Freeman	argumentative	"Don't be argumentative with me ,Lucy."
War Comes to Willy Freeman	musket	The soldier raised up his musket and poked up the bayonet towards Pa.
War Comes to Willy Freeman	palisades	I spit, and then Pa was pulling me over the wooden palisades into the fort and I was safe.
War Comes to Willy Freeman	bluster	"Pa said that was just a bluster."
War Comes to Willy Freeman	surrender	"The British want us to surrender."
War Comes to Willy Freeman	grim bitter	She looked mighty grim, and bitter like there wasn't nothing fair in anything.
War Comes to Willy Freeman	hither	It covered the river, but through it I could see boats being rowed hither and yon, and ships at the wharf burned to the waterline and another big ship afire drifting down the river.
War Comes to Willy Freeman	writhing	Soldiers were lying on the ground writhing while the British rammed bayonets into them, so's some of them must have got killed a dozen times.