Meg’s First Day

By: Deborah Kent

Vocabulary: Please write the definitions for the following words, then choose three words to put into a sentence.

• hubbub – a loud, confused noise, as of many voices
• sympathy – harmony of or agreement in feeling, as between persons or on the part of one person with respect to another.
• conspicuous – easily seen or noticed; readily visible or observable:
• jostling – to bump, push, shove, brush against, or elbow roughly or rudely.
• independence – freedom from the control, influence, support, aid, or the like, of others.
• maneuver – a planned and regulated movement or evolution of troops, warships, etc.
• succotash – a cooked dish of kernels of corn mixed with shell beans, especially lima beans, and, often, with green and sweet red peppers.