The Art Thieves: List 3

by Andrea L. Rogers
In a climate-ravaged future, Cherokee teen Stevie Henry must decide whether to trust a mysterious boy claiming to be a time traveler sent to steal and protect priceless artwork before an impending apocalypse destroys it.

This list covers vocabulary from "What’s Going On"–"Can’t Take It."

Here are links to our lists for the book: List 1, List 2, List 3, List 4, List 5
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  1. charcuterie
    a store that specializes in meats and meat products
    We’d just left his little charcuterie.
  2. rescind
    cancel officially
    A few panic emojis later and she rescinded: she really didn’t want to be the cause of a panic attack.
  3. spiel
    artful or slick talk used to persuade
    We returned to the elephant stand in time to catch her spiel on the new expansions in the elephant area.
  4. effusive
    extravagantly demonstrative
    When he wasn’t being questioned, Adam was effusive about the food.
  5. proxy
    a person authorized to act for another
    For a few minutes, he came over and grabbed my left and Adam’s right and walked between us. It was kind of nice. Like holding Adam’s hand by proxy, I thought.
  6. pandemic
    an outbreak of disease that is geographically widespread
    It was their place to go the next time there was a big pandemic; a place to hang out and not be too inconvenienced by the end of the world.
  7. profusely
    in very large amounts or quantities; extremely
    There was a cut on the back of their head and it was bleeding profusely.
  8. malleable
    easily influenced
    Later, when I saw his number pop up on my phone, I couldn’t answer it. Didn’t want to answer it. Didn’t want to talk about it. The drinks. Being flattered by Alan’s attention, being malleable. Being stupid.
  9. repertoire
    a collection of works that an artist or company can perform
    Levi let me paint his face with the marks of a monarch butterfly before the event started. It wasn’t bad, but I had a limited repertoire; my lifeline was a cheat sheet complete with patterns that would limit the choices the kids made.
  10. guise
    an artful or simulated semblance
    Loren said Jess’s parents had kept their phone and had the nurses turn off the phone in their room, under the guise of helping them heal.
  11. bandwidth
    the mental ability or strength needed to handle a situation
    Their bandwidth for care was strained.
  12. inter
    place in a grave or tomb
    He parked and we took the trail that led to the place where Geronimo was supposed to be interred.
  13. affluent
    having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value
    “Skull and Bones? White, affluent teens raiding his tomb while they went to school here to train to kill people? They acted like it was war plunder. But really it was just grave robbing.”
  14. engender
    call forth
    “...Art that is necessary for the future. Art that communicates the insanity of hate and racism, particularly the hate human beings engender against each other using religion, race, borders, gender, and ethnicity as an excuse.”
  15. fateful
    having momentous consequences; of decisive importance
    I remembered Alan coming back from downstairs, after I had called and hung up on Adam, tipsily, then texted Loren and Jess, frantically, put them on their fateful journey.
Created on Sun Sep 20 17:57:25 EDT 2026 (updated Tue Nov 03 14:41:56 EST 2026)

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