Vocabulary activity for Chapters 3 - 4 of A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle!
Here are some exerts from the story. Fill in the blank with the correct vocabulary word. When you have answered all of the questions, click the "Check Answer" button. A box will pop-up with your score. Do not close until your score is printed or reviewed by your teacher.
Word Bank
corporeal
decipher
dubious
ephemeral
essence
gambol
ineffable
inexorable
morass
tangible
"Charles Wallace's difference isn't physical. It's in __________."
essence
tangible
morass
corporeal
"I guess so," Meg said, but her happiness had fled and she was back in a __________ of anger and resentment.
morass
essence
corporeal
decipher
For some reason Meg felt that Mrs. Which, despite her looks and __________ broomstick, was someone in whom one could put complete trust.
tangible
ephemeral
essence
decipher
This feeling of moving with the earth was somewhat like the feeling of being in the ocean, out in the ocean beyond this rising and falling of the breakers, lying on the moving water, pulsing gently with the swells, and feeling the gentle, __________ tug of the moon.
inexorable
ineffable
tangible
morass
They walked in silence. Charles and Fortinbras ____________ on ahead.
gamboled
decipher
ineffable
inexorable
"With a good deal of difficulty I can usually __________ it, but I doubt very much if her teachers can, or are willing to take the time."
dubiously
morass
decipher
essence
There was an air of such __________ peace and joy all around her that her heart's wild thumping slowed.
dubious
tangible
corporeal
ineffable
Mrs. Murry smiled at her. "Maybe that's really the point I was trying to put across." "Yah," Meg said __________. Her mother smiled again.
ineffable
gamboled
dubiously
corporeal
Silence fell between them, as _________ as the dark tree shadows that fell across their laps and that now seemed to rest upon them as heavily as though they possessed a measurable weight of their own.
dubious
corporeal
tangible
ineffable
Just as light and sound had vanished, she was gone, too. The __________ Meg simply was not.