VOCABULARY CHAPTERS 8 - 10 Freak The Mighty

Part I: Using Prior Knowledge and Contextual Clues

Below are the sentences in which the vocabulary words appear in the text. Read the sentence.
Use any clues you can find in the sentence combined with your prior knowledge, and write what
you think the underlined words mean on the lines provided.

1. . . . and it’s like I’m possessed or something, I’ve no idea where the things I’m saying are
coming from, or why.

2. “Promise me you’ll keep away from the hoodlum boy and his awful friends.”

3. “He’s taking evasive action. Avoiding a confrontation.”

4. “A dragon is fear of the natural world,” Freak says. “ An archetype of the unknown.”

6. “That way, mighty steed! Yonder lies the East!”

8. “Now swear on your heart that the data you are about to receive will be divulged to no one.”

9. “Optimum darkness occurs at oh-three hundred hours.”

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10. “It’s black,” he says. “That’s what counts. The camouflage factor.”

11. “Pledge to me your fealty.”

12. “I devised a special retrieval device,” Freak says.

Part II: Determining the Meaning

Match the vocabulary words to their dictionary definitions.

Answer Vocabulary Word Definition

1 possessed
2 hoodlum
3 evasive
4 archetype
5 steed
6 divulged
7 optimum
8 camouflage
9 fealty
10 retrieval
a. made known: revealed
b. an original model
c. act or process of getting something back
d. most favorable; best
e. controlled as if by a spirit or other force
f. a horse
g. a tough and aggressive young man
h. tending or intended to avoid
i. protective coloring or disguise
j. loyalty; faithfulness

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