The Parker Inheritance by Varian Johnson, Vocabulary List Chapters 12-14

to adjust or change to fit a new climate or new surroundings

She helped Enoch acclimate to living in the big city.

to fascinate by some special charm

She was smart and beautiful, with eyes that could captivate a room.

to change from one form to another

"And if I convert the spare—"

to refuse to accept, do, or agree

After grabbing a bite to eat, Candice's dad offered to take her clothes shopping, but she quickly declined.

happening often

He tried to maintain contact with his siblings, but as they migrated to Chicago and New York, and he moved from place to place, their letters became less frequent.

to gather in a crop

Which meant their crop didn't have enough time to mature before it was time to harvest.

an amount collected

Come the end of the season, their haul was light again.

to get by heredity

She hadn't inherited her mother's fair skin or fine hair, but Dub didn't care.

to move from one country or region to another

He tried to maintain contact with his siblings, but as they migrated to Chicago and New York, and he moved from place to place, their letters became less frequent.

showing lack of experience or knowledge

Candice wasn't naïve.

very strange or unusual : BIZARRE

"No, it's too outlandish to be true."

to talk or write in an aimless, erratic, and often long-winded fashion

If one was busy, the other was there to listen as she rambled about her day, or help her with her homework, or whatever.

to repeat something said or done

Her mother reiterated that she wanted to wait until the end of the summer to get one, but her father wasn't having it.

a farmer especially in the southern U.S. who raises crops for the owner of a piece of land and is paid a portion of the money from the sale of the crops

"Because you got a chance — a real chance — of being something other than a sharecropper."

position or rank of a person or thing

Mr. Rackley may have had more money, power, and status than any other colored man in Luling, but his children were only allowed to attend the one-room Negro school, lie every other colored child in the country.

causing a feeling that something is wrong or that someone is behaving wrongly : causing suspicion

"Don't go downloading anything suspicious."