Vocab for boy in the striped pyjamas chapters 8 to 9 wk 3

Forlorn - Ch.8

The boy was smaller than Bruno and was sitting on the ground with a forlorn expression.

The boy was sitting their forlorn expression on his face after getting hit in the face

Enunciate - Ch.8

You do not speak until he speaks to you and then you reply in a clear tone, enunciating each word precisely. Is that understood?'

The boy read out his speech enunciating every word precisely

Disdain -ch.8

'I'm twelve but he's only nine,' said Gretel, looking at her brother with disdain.

The Queen said to her guards get him out of here with disdain

Inconsolable - Ch.8

(His departure had come about very suddenly and there had been a lot of shouting between Father and Mother about it late at night, but he was gone, that was for sure, and he wasn't coming back; Gretel was inconsolable.)

The boy's dad had just past away and he was inconsolable.

Appalled - Ch.8

'Marches!' said Bruno, appalled.

You could see on her face that she was appalled after what she had just seen

Unaccustomed - Ch.8

Shmuel smiled too and the two boys stood awkwardly together for a moment, unaccustomed to being on the same side of the fence.

The boy was unaccustomed to bungee  jumping

Strode - Ch.9

Lieutenant Kotler still strode around in his black boots as if there was no one in the whole world of any more importance than him, and when he wasn't with Father he was standing in the driveway talking to Gretel while she laughed hysterically and twirled her hair around her ringers, or whispering alone in rooms with Mother.

He strode around the living room thinking about what he was going to have for tea

Evidence- Ch.9

'Take a look at him for your evidence.'

He scanned the room for any evidence

Despite - Ch.9

'Don't be stupid,' said Gretel, despite the fact that she had been told time and time again that she was not to call her brother stupid.

Despite being told 100 times he still ran in front of the bus

Nooks - Ch.9

After all, this wasn't like the house in Berlin, which he could just about remember had hundreds of nooks and crannies, and strange little rooms, not to mention five floors if you counted the basement and the little room at the top with the window he needed to stand on tiptoes to see through.

In this game of hide and seek there were heaps of nooks and crannies to hide in