‘The Wizard of Oz Vocabulary Builder AIl Rights Resecved © 2003 hy Mae Phillips No patt of this hook may be teproduced of transmitted in any form or by any ‘means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping, of by any information storage retrieval system, without the permission, ‘writing from the publisher: For information addres: A. J. Comell Publications 18-74 Corporal Kennedy St Bayside, NY 11360 Cover illustration by Debbie Phillips Cover desiga by Jonathan Gallery Library of Congress Control Number: 2002096732 ISBN: 0.9727439.0-1 Printed in the Unites States of America1 “The Tornado” Once upon a time, a winsome! young oxphan named Dorothy lived with her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry on a bleak, hardscrabble? Kansas farm. Located about fifty feet feom thei Spartan’ little house was a small underground room called a cyclone cellar, where the family could go in case one of those mighty, house-crushing whithvinds arose. Dorothy's one real joy came from playing with Toto, her little black dog, Toto had long silky hair and small black eyes that twinkled merrily on either side of his funny litle nose. Together they frittered away many an afternoon, frolicking among the haystacks in perpetual delight, far beneath the pellucid# Kansas skies. winsome If you're sien you're naturally charming, engaging, adotable, win ning, ete, and sou probably have a childlike inaocence, too, The word is used more often to describe a female than a male, When I iad Phi tht the new fl comedy stared ‘Meg Ryan be said “Let me es he plays a winsome yg nora xo finds fore but ot anil ‘ele fie ite of i” © hardserabble This word describes things (towns, farms, land, etc) that provide very lle ia eetum (crops, for example) for much effort. People who live « hand. sabbie existence (mountainside farmers, for example) bately subsist. Jv 1985 Palizer Price-ninning coleist Resell Baber sui “Gact cose peda bizar et eu ston eu peapi insted that the miserable chee produced by thse mre creatures red! on ‘meal andabhle arth mae actaaly peri to the magnificent ray cee ofthe molt iy aia rd inthe vic gren alls of the earth” Spartan If something is Sfurtan, i's severely simple or restrained. Note: The word is usually capitalized because it refers tothe ancient Geeck city of Spasta famous for ite stsict discipline and stit way of Kio. Whew she 1 baw the bawe as drat (no ngs, me daisenacks, and bare jr) she eclimed, “Uh plas i as Spartan as a monk's edn” « pellueid IE something is Hui (the sense of being trsnyparent, t allows hight to ‘piss through. But when you refer to something as cd, you mean that it allows the anemum parable aencunt of light to pase theough Tle antpalltion campaign fo ured a eared Arian Fedian sanding oa Bl bide a eld brook1 WI RD C OCABULARY BUILDER One day, while hunkered! down to milk a mottled? cow, Uncle Henzy kept an ansious eye toward an increasingly ominous* sky above. Suddenly seeing the long grass ripple before him, he froze Now there came a sharp whistling from behind him, and as he turned his head he saw undulations in the grass in that divection also. ‘The usually phlegmatic’ farmer bolted straight up in alest at- tention. “There’s a twister coming, Em,” he shouted to his wife. Ever solicitous® of his livestock, he bolted toward the barn, hunker (hunkered) To fumteris t0 squat or erouch down. Thus, if you're hun- Ikered down, you're squatting down, close tothe ground, Theater gonial oan {uined an mp pation bat Inbred down at each cue and foreach jumping ram. ® motied IF something ix mon it's spotted or blotched with different color oF shadings. Our adn cts coat as mottled with shade of bow, black, and white ‘ominous If something is mina, it gives you a fecling that something bad is about to happen. It comes from the word omer, which means “a sign that fortells «| (osually bad) future event.” Dr tbe 1975 fl Jaws, the shark's appearances usa sad (to the cudnt) by Jo, ins mas undulate (undulations) If something sndeies, it moves with smooth, wavelike motions. Undelton age these wavelize motions Bill vided damn a partes bse bt id’ beac wndalatig—ar nang any unuoutmations, for that maton—in pa 5 phlegmatic Ia the days before modem medicine, ie was believed that if you had _pikgathat thick mucus that sometimes gets annoyingly stuck in your throat—it ‘ued you to not care to much about things and to be slow or shigish. Today, if you say someone is plea, you mean that he doesn't get excited to0 exsily he’s father uiemotional aud indifferent. Note: Dictionaries wil tell you that the word is pronounced with a hued g. but many people pronounce it witha silent g-On Hadi ten ex 1988, jnrmalst David Strife arte, “Asrdig to steronpe, the Bxgish are ph ‘matic and (impetus, rach larly explain the atactnn of placer ke the Cham of Homo Madame Tassd’s Wa: Museum or the Landon Durgon, inch combines the cal of Disaend with the pin of wel, Jack te Ripper.” nue When you'e slain of (oe about) someone, you're thoughtfully con: cemed (often ansously concemed) about his welfar, heal, or safety. Mast nr: ‘ant wee soon of Lindberg at ing his solo 1927 monte fh from New York to arts Note: Doa't confuse this with the woed slit that you somietiaes see on signs (on buildings) that say “No solicting.” Those signs basically mean that door to- Aloor salesmen are not permitted to seek business there