Maggie Malone Makes a Splash (12 page)

Just like I love to try out new lives, I also love to try out new words! Here's a list of some sort-of-fancy words I used in this book that you might not have known before. I included a synonym for each, but you could probably figure out what they mean from the way I used them in the story. Now that you know these words, don't be afraid to use them. Being smart is totally cool.

1. Abandon: to leave

2. Alternate: substitute

3. Anchovies: small saltwater fish

4. Antsy: overly excited

5. Apparently: clearly

6. Avalanche: large mass falling suddenly

7. Bellows: roars

8. Blares: makes loud noise

9. Bow: front of a boat

10. Buoy: a floating marker

11. Capacity: ability

12. Civilized: polite

13. Commotion: disturbance

14. Complexion: skin tone

15. Concussion: brain injury due to a blow to the head

16. Conservation: the act of preserving or protecting

17. Conversationalist: a person skilled at speaking with another person

18. Depressing: really sad

19. Desperate: extreme

20. Dilemma: problem

21. Dillydallying: wasting time

22. Dismissively: indicating lack of interest

23. Distracted: preoccupied

24. Earshot: within range to be heard

25. Effortlessly: easily

26. Embroidery: weaving with thread

27. Endangered: in danger of becoming extinct

28. Exertion: physical effort

29. Exotic: unusual

30. Expression: a particular phrase

31. Extracurricular: additional

32. Fiasco: disaster

33. Flitting: fluttering

34. Fuming: feeling or showing anger

35. Furious: extremely angry

36. Ganges: a sacred river in India

37. Gestures: hand movements

38. Glide: slide

39. Hauls: pulls

40. Humongous: huge

41. Hygiene: cleanliness

42. Jostle: bump and shake

43. Legitimate: official

44. Maintenance: upkeep

45. Milling: walking

46. Miniature: tiny

47. Minnow: small freshwater fish

48. Oceanographer: a scientist who studies the ocean

49. Officially: formally

50. Pathetic: pitiful

51. Plunge: to jump or dive into water

52. Privilege: honor

53. Professional: expert

54. Reflection: mirror image

55. Rhythm: particular beat

56. Scandal: disgraceful action

57. Scrawled: written sloppily

58. Sprawling: spreading out

59. Sprouted: suddenly appeared

60. Stash: tuck away for safekeeping

61. Stateroom: a bedroom on a ship

62. Stern: back of a boat

63. Summarizes: recaps

64. Synchronized: exactly together

65. Technically: officially

66. Throng: crowd

67. Thunderous: loud

68. Timidly: shyly

69. Torturous: painful

70. Trawler: large boat

71. Wedging: squeezing

Jenna McCarthy is a writer, speaker, and aspiring drummer who has wanted magical boots since she learned to walk. She lives with her husband, daughters, cats, and dogs in sunny Southern California.

Carolyn Evans is an author, speaker, and singer/songwriter who once opened for Pat Benatar—you can ask your mom who that is. She loves traveling to faraway places but is just as happy at home with her husband and kids, living by a river in South Carolina and dreaming up grand adventures for Maggie Malone.

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