Lightning Thief Vocabulary, Chapter 1

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  1. stele
    an ancient upright stone slab bearing markings
    He gathered us around a thirteen-foot-tall stone column with a big sphinx on the top, and started telling us how it was a grave marker, a stele, for a girl about our age.
  2. dyslexia
    impaired ability to learn to read
    But Mr. Brunner expected me to be as good as everybody else, despite the fact I have dyslexia and attention deficit disorder and I had never made above a C- in my life.
  3. vaporize
    turn into gas
    I Accidentally Vaporize My Pre-Algebra Teacher


    Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood.
  4. pulverize
    make into a powder by breaking up or cause to become dust
    Something about the way she looked at the frieze, as if she wanted to pulverize it .
  5. ADHD
    condition characterized by behavioral and learning disorders
    The school counselor told me this was part of the ADHD, my brain misinterpreting things.
  6. frieze
    an ornament consisting of a horizontal sculptured band
    Mrs. Dodds stood with her arms crossed in front of a big marble frieze of the Greek gods.
  7. museum
    a building for collecting and displaying valuable objects
    I could start at any point in my short miserable life to prove it, but things really started going bad last May, when our sixth-grade class took a field trip to Manhattan-twenty-eight mental-case kids and two teachers on a yellow school bus, heading to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to look at ancient Greek and Roman stuff.
  8. Zeus
    the supreme god of ancient Greek mythology
    But his wife hid baby Zeus, and gave Kronos a rock to eat instead.
  9. probation
    a trial period during which one's abilities are tested
    Anyway, Nancy Bobofit was throwing wads of sandwich that stuck in his curly brown hair, and she knew I couldn't do anything back to her because I was already on probation.
  10. counselor
    someone who gives advice about problems
    The school counselor had told me a million times, "Count to ten, get control of your temper."
  11. materialize
    come into being; become reality
    Mrs. Dodds materialized next to us.
  12. detention
    a state of being confined (usually for a short time)
    She would point her crooked finger at me and say, "Now, honey," real sweet, and I knew I was going to get after-school detention for a month.
  13. semester
    one of two divisions of an academic year
    There was a triumphant fire in her eyes, as if I'd done something she'd been waiting for all semester.
  14. sphinx
    a mythical creature with a lion's body and a human head
    He gathered us around a thirteen-foot-tall stone column with a big sphinx on the top, and started telling us how it was a grave marker, a stele, for a girl about our age.
  15. headmaster
    presiding officer of a school
    The headmaster had threatened me with death-by-in-school-suspension if anything bad, embarrassing, or even mildly entertaining happened on this trip.
  16. underworld
    (religion) the place of the dead
    The gods defeated their father, sliced him to pieces with his own scythe, and scattered his remains in Tartarus, the darkest part of the Underworld.
  17. Titan
    (Greek mythology) any of the primordial giant gods who ruled the Earth until overthrown by Zeus; the Titans were offspring of Uranus (Heaven) and Gaea (Earth)
    "Titan," I corrected myself.
  18. gallery
    a porch along the outside of a building
    He rode up front in his wheelchair, guiding us through the big echoey galleries, past marble statues and glass cases full of really old black-and-orange pottery.
  19. Greek
    of or relating to or characteristic of Greece or the Greeks or the Greek language
    I could start at any point in my short miserable life to prove it, but things really started going bad last May, when our sixth-grade class took a field trip to Manhattan-twenty-eight mental-case kids and two teachers on a yellow school bus, heading to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to look at ancient Greek and Roman stuff.
  20. academy
    a learned establishment for the advancement of knowledge
    Until a few months ago, I was a boarding student at Yancy Academy, a private school for troubled kids in upstate New York.
  21. troubled
    characterized by or indicative of distress or affliction or danger or need
    Until a few months ago, I was a boarding student at Yancy Academy, a private school for troubled kids in upstate New York.
  22. immortal
    not subject to death
    Zeus did indeed feed Kronos a mixture of mustard and wine, which made him disgorge his other five children, who, of course, being immortal gods, had been living and growing up completely undigested in the titan's stomach.
  23. magic
    any art that invokes supernatural powers
    My lunch must've been contaminated with magic mushrooms or something.
Created on Wed Jul 07 23:55:40 EDT 2010

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