Torres Vocabulary Timeline

  • wisps

  • Uttmeir

    The Tiger Rising by Kate DiCamillo
    make (a sound) with one's voice
  • Insignificant

    New Moon
    Stephanie Meyer
    too small or unimportant to be worth consideration.
  • Fabricated

    "The anger was what I wanted to hear-false,Fabricated evidence that he cared,a dubious gift from my subconscious'.New Moon by Stephanie Meyer.the action or process of manufacturing or inventing something.
  • Time-Turner

    Time-Turner
    Harry Potter and the cursed child parts one and two by J.K Rowling John Tiffany and Jack thorne
    "We've found the Time-Turner---I never thought we'd get this far."(Thorne #86)
    ''Plated in 24 karat gold, the Time Turner features a working miniature hourglass and rotating inner rings. Product Specifications. Authentic recreation of Hermione's Time Turner necklace. From the movie Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.''
  • Investigation

    Harry Potter And The Cursed Child By J.K. Rowling
    'In the meantime, investigations will begin in my department as to his true heritage"(Rowling 116)
    the action of investigating something or someone; formal or systematic examination or research.
  • prophecy

    Harry Potter and the cursed child by J Rowling
    "A prophecy. A new prophecy"(Rowling 242)
    a prediction.
  • Mudblood

    Hp and the cursed child by J Rowling
    "Mudbloods of course"(Rowling 171)
    Mudblood is a highly derogatory term for a Muggle-born wizard or witch; that is, individuals with no wizarding relatives.
  • Marshalling

    HP and the cursed child-JR Rowling
    "Marshalling forces to fight in the limited way we can fight."(Rowling 256)
    arrange or assemble (a group of people, especially soldiers) in orde
  • Intently

    HP and the cursed child-JR rowling
    "DELPHI speaks intently in parseltongue" (Page 287)
    with earnest and eager attention
  • Chattering(43)

    Burned a house of night novel pg 2-43
    "milling and chattering and basically acting weirdly super nervous."
    talk rapidly or incessantly about trivial matters.
  • Neferet

    Burning a house of night novel-Page-53
    "His gaze locked with hers, and the one word he uttered made her blood run cold. Neferet"(Kristin 53)
    Beautiful woman, Ra is satisfied, The two powers apear
  • Entrap

    Burned a house of night novel-Page 46-55
    "That is how A-ya was used to entrap him."(Kristin 55)
    catch (someone or something) in or as in a trap.
  • Aphrodite(65)

    Aphrodite(65)
    Burned a house of night novel-pgs 53-65 "Aphrodite didn't let Darius carry her from the council chamber like he wanted to."(Kistin 65) -A greek goddess
  • Barbaric (85)

    Barbaric (85)
    Burned a house of night novel-Pgs 69-89 "If you want to fine ancient barbaric beliefs you have to go to a place formed by an ancient barbaric past." savagely cruel; exceedingly brutal.
  • Bottomless(111)

    Bottomless(111)
    Burned A House Of Night Novel-pgs 95-112 "With eyes so black they glistened like a bottomless lake at midnight'(Kristen 111) without a bottom.
  • bumpkin(133)

    bumpkin(133)
    Burned a house of night novel-pg 121-133 "You're not all under its spell so that you're bbeing used like a sock puppet for evil with a bumpkin accent,right?"(Kristin 133) an unsophisticated or socially awkward person from the countryside
  • Priestess(158)

    Priestess(158)
    Burned a house of night novel pgs 142-160
    "I'll sill be here for you when you need me, girl, 'cause you're gonna alway be my High Priestess."(Kristen 158) -a female priest of a non-Christian religion
  • Consort(223)

    Burned a house of night novel 197-233
    "No,a high priestess can have a mate and a consort, she told herself."
    a wife, husband, or companion, in particular the spouse of a reigning monarch.
  • reluctantly (256)

    Burned a house of night novel pgs 241-287
    "Aphrodite hesitated and then, reluctantly, asked, "But is she happy?"(pg 256)
    in an unwilling and hesitant way.
  • Tendril (293)

    Tendril (293)
    Burned a house of night novel pgs 245-315
    "The sky above Stark rippled, and the pristine blue began to gray. tendrils of Darkness, like smoke from a toxic fire, spread, thicjened, and took form
    a slender threadlike appendage of a climbing plant, often growing in a spiral form, that stretches out and twines around any suitable support.
  • Foreshawdoing

    Foreshawdoing
    The Outsiders pg 36 ''Man, I thought, if I had worries like that I'd consider myself lucky."(Hinton 36)
    • be a warning or indication of (a future event).
  • hyperventilate pg 45

    Athletic shorts by Chris Crutcher pgs 1-59
    "I hyperventilate for the rest of my minute."(Crutcher 45) breathe or cause to breathe at an abnormally rapid rate, so increasing the rate of loss of carbon dioxide.
  • Authorities (7)

    Athletic shorts 68-end
    JIp his story 1-10
    "With some reluctance, he, in turn, had called upon the authorities."(Paterson 7)
    -the power or right to give orders, make decisions, and enforce obedience.