1. Vocabulary Chapters 1-4

2. Chapter 1  intention (p. 1)  delinquent (p. 2)  distinction (p. 2)  pathological (p. 3) Chapter 2  rustic (p. 8)  reign (p.9)  hostility (p.11) Chapter 3  assimilation (p. 17)  rejected (p. 18)  loathed (p. 21)  despised (p.21) Chapter 4  intensified (p. 23)  radiant (p. 23)  unidentifiable (p. 27)  quest (p. 27)

3. (NOUN) She had no intention of telling this creep the story of her name. (p.1) Chapter 1

4. (ADJECTIVE) Not an original bone in his body, E.D. thought. Just a plain ordinary delinquent. (p.2) Chapter 1

5. (NOUN) Melissa wasn’t sure what all he’d done to achieve that particular distinction, but the word around Traybridge was that one thing he did was burn down his old school. (p.2) Chapter 1

6. (ADJECTIVE) Only Aunt Lucille, whose view of life was almost pathologically sunny, would get the idea... (p.3) Chapter 1

7. (ADJECTIVE) … there was a wooden sign with W IT ’ S E ND spelled out on it with bark covered twigs. Quaint and rustic and weird. (p.8) Chapter 2

8. (NOUN/VERB) Being home schooled, the Applewhites hadn’t been at Traybridge Middle School during what he liked to think of as the Jake Semple Reign of Terror. (p.9) Chapter 2

9. (ADJECTIVE) “That smelly demon is hostility personified. It would take more than a little chasing to get him down”. (p.11) Chapter 2

10. (VERB) “The point of the family meeting had been to outline The Plan for Jake’s assimilation into the Creative Academy. (p.17) Chapter 3

11. (VERB) … a theater company that had hired him … didn’t need him after all. He had been feeling rejected. (p.18) Chapter 3

12. (VERB) If she had to catch Jake Semple up on what she had done so far … E.D. sighed. She loathed and despised chaos. (p.21) Chapter 3

13. (VERB) If she had to catch Jake Semple up on what she had done so far … E.D. sighed. She loathed and despised chaos. (p.21) Chapter 3

14. (VERB) Jake intensified his scowl. The combination of this particular expression and his T- shirt … had totally unnerved the principal … (p.23) Chapter 4

15. (ADJECTIVE) Lucille sighed a long, appreciative sigh, “A radiant light being, that’s what you are …” (p.23) Chapter 4

16. (ADJECTIVE) There were … lots and lots of finger paintings full of unidentifiable shapes in intense rainbow colors. (p.27) Chapter 4

17. (NOUN/VERB) E DUCATION IS AN ADVENTUROUS QUEST FOR THE MEANING OF LIFE, INVOLVING THE ABILITY TO THINK THINGS THROUGH. – Z. Applewhite. (p.27) Chapter 4