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GWOCThe Girl Who Owned a City
 Part I
______awkward--embarrassing or inconvenient
______abruptly--in a sudden manner
_______invest--as in use or devote time to achieving something...
What do we invest a lot of time in America???
_______conglomeration--a cluster or collection of unrelated things
_____plague--an epidemic disease that results in many deaths
_____militia--a body of citizens enrolled in a military service
______reverie--a state of day dreaming
______ eerie--weird or strange
______ironic—what is reality is actually opposite of what should be
______civilized -- a higher level thinker in the animal world
beyond the basic animal instinct
______venture -- willing to take a risk; willing to brave the dangers of
sometimes in order to survive
______pantry—a shelving storage area that holds supplies of food for
use in the future
_____maggots—legless, soft-bodied, worm-like creatures in the larvae stage that are often found in decaying matter
_____looting –to remove items from a place (home/ store); stealing
goods at a time when there is no law and no order
______volatile--highly explosive
____chide--to scold
____harried---distressed because overwhelmed by repeated requests or obligations
Part II and Part III
ecstasy---(n) overwhelming delight, elation
clamored ---(v) to noisily and loudly be insistent for an answer / response
feeble-- (adj) weak
mocking --(v) making fun of, object of scorn, ridiculing
debut –(n) first public appearance
devised --(v) invented, created
provision—(n) the act of being prepared beforehand
abated --(v) diminishing in intensity
ominously --(adv)—threateningly, foreshadowing evil or disaster
resignation –(n) submission, accepting the inevitable, giving up deliberately
although not liking the decision
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