Fish in a Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt, Vocabulary List Chapters 22-27

coming, happening, done, made, or given once a year

"The first annual Fantastico Poetry Award."

to talk about or admit something that makes you embarrassed, ashamed, etc.

I stop before I confess to feeling like a failure at everything else.

to listen secretly to private conversation

"Eavesdrop much?"

not real or true : MADE-UP

Mr. Daniels asks us to write about our favorite fictional character.

a unit of liquid capacity equal to four quarts (about 3.8 liters)

She hands him the gallon.

to create or produce (something useful) for the first time

"You're going to be a famous artist and Albert is going to cure cancer or invent talking fish or something."

a popular belief that is not true

"No, it is a myth that you render a butterfly unable to fly by touching its wings."

a feeling of sadness or sympathy for the suffering or unhappiness of others

This is a pity award.

to cause to be or become

"No, it is a myth that you render a butterfly unable to fly by touching its wings."

a usually small amount of something that remains after a process has been completed or a thing has been removed

The powdery residue on their wings is actually scales.

the group of different colors including red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet seen when light passes through a prism and falls on a surface or when sunlight is affected by drops of water (as in a rainbow)

"Oh, wait," he says. "Like the colors of the color spectrum?"

to change completely

Like getting this certificate is going to make me pat myself on the back and, somehow, transform into a different person.

impolite in conduct or speech : CRUDE

"You two are just so uncouth."

a person who does something by free choice usually with no payment expected or given

He asks for volunteers to explain the difference between the two.