THE LONDON EYE MYSTERY VOCABULARY

WORD NUMBER 1:

• Queue
• Queue- people or cars waiting in line.
• Found on page 7
• "You are sealed into one of the thirty- two capsules with strangers who were next to you in the QUEUE ....."
• I was with strangers in the queue for a new movie release.

WORD NUMBER 2

• Hawsers
• Hawsers- large heavy rope used in ships.
• Found on page 8
• " The best thing to look at is the spokes and metallic HAWSERS of the Eye itself."
• The ship had hawsers at the front of the boat.

WORD NUMBER 3:

• Curator
• Curator-janitor of a collection in a museum
• Found on page 13
• Salim and I are moving to New York, where I have bee offered the job as an art CUATOR."
• I work as an curator at the museum of national history.

WORD NUMBER 4:

• LILO
• LILO- a word British people use for blow up mattress.
• Found on page 29
• " When I woke up, the sleeping bag on the LILO next to my bed was empty."
• On Friday nights my dad and I blow up the LILO for me to sleep on.

WORD NUMBER 5:

• Barracks
• Barracks- buildings used to house people in the military.
• Found on page 15
• "There's a meeting about blowing up the BARRACKS."
• When I was traveling we passed the barracks.

WORD NUMBER 6:

• Garter
• Garter- a band wrapped around the leg to hold fabric up.
• Found on page 43
• " I Salim, she said as if he were in the room, "I will have your guts for GARTERS."
• My mom had to use garters for her knee socks.

WORD NUMBER 7:

• Palaver
• Palaver- look or sound confused.
• Found on page 50
• "What a bloody PALAVER."
• I had a palaver look on my face when I saw the answer.

WORD NUMBER 8:

• Muddled
• Muddled- not being clearly understood.
• Found on page 90
• " Without getting them MUDDLED."
• The math homework was muddled by the students.

WORD NUMBER 9:

• Morgue
• Morgue- a building where no longer living bodies are placed.
• Found on page 117
• " He's in the MORGUE"
• The body was placed in the morgue before the funeral.

WORD NUMBER 10:

• Abacus
• Abacus- an arithmetic calculator using beads.
• Found on page 83
• "They're like ABACUS beads," Kat said "going left to righ."
• An abacus is an ancient Chinese calculator.

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