end of vocabs!

adzes: An axlike tool with a curved blade at right angles to the handle, used for shaping wood. "You do not need to defend yourselves with knives and adzes," said the Witch coldly." page 377.

gawky: Awkward; ungainly. "There is the green girl, shy, gawky, and humiliated." page 381.

impenetrably: Impossible to understand; incomprehensible. "She is no longer I, she is too long ago, she is only she, impenetrably mysterious and dense-she stands as Dorothy stood." page 382.

cipher: One having no influence or value; a nonentity. "The Tin Woodman was hollow, a tiktok cipher, or an eviscerated human under a spell." page 389.

troupe: A company or group, especially of touring actors, singers, or dancers. "By this the witch guessed that the troupe had arrived in Red Windmill, and were given a royal welcome." page 390.

vertigo: An instance of such a sensation. "The Lion moaned in pain and wept from vertigo." page 394.

progeny: One born of, begotten by, or derived from another; an offspring or a descendant. "Killyjoy, who had been with her eight years, a fly ridden corpse going stiff on the hill among all his progeny." page 397.

apocryphal: of questionable authenticity. "It may merely be apocryphal that when the wizard saw the glass bottle he gasped, and clutched his heart." page 406.




NOW WE REACHED THE END OF THE BOOK. YAY! ANY FINAL THOUGHTS/COMMENTS ABOUT IT? HOPE MY VOCABULARY DEFINITIONS HELPED YOU! :]


-Monica Sharma :]