A Wrinkle in Time vocabulary 1

Vocabulary 1: A Wrinkle in Time- Vocabulary 1
  1. Assimilate- incorporate. Integrate new knowledge (or person) with what is already in place.
  2. Avid- eager or enthusiastic about something.
  3. Dilapidated- run down, ruined or decay; result of neglect.
  4. Frivoling- to spend or waste something in a foolish, or frivolous, way.
  5. Gamboled- to leap or skip around playfully.
  6. Scudded- to move swiftly and smoothly.
  7. Supine- lying on the back, face upward. Palm of had facing upward or away from body. Passive or inactive.
  8. Corporeal- relating to or involving the physical body rather than the mind.
  9. Ephemeral- short-lived; lasting for only a short period of time, leaving no permanent trace.
  10. Ineffable- indescribable. Unable to express in words.
  11. Inexorable- impossible to stop.
  12. Enfolded-to surround or enclose somebody or something. To embrace.
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