Inkheart: Chapters 24-45

by Cornelia Funke
Mo has the power to bring characters from books into the real world; but when one of those characters kidnaps Mo, his daughter Meggie must embrace her own magical powers in order to rescue her father.

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  1. perforated
    having a number or series of holes
    “I mean I can smell a good story miles away, so don't try keeping one from me. Out with it! And then you can have a piece of this magnificently perforated cake."
  2. crestfallen
    brought low in spirit
    The other two children followed their grandfather, looking crestfallen.
  3. cistern
    an artificial reservoir for storing liquids
    Only when every breath he drew hurt him did he throw himself down into the long grass behind an abandoned cistern where frogs croaked and the rainwater that had collected among the gray stones steamed in the sun.
  4. cranny
    a small opening or crevice
    He and the old man talked far into the evening, while Fenoglio's grandchildren chased Meggie all over the nooks and crannies of the house.
  5. desecrate
    remove the sacredness from a person or an object
    She stumbled through her desecrated treasures as if she were wading through a muddy pond, pushed them aside, picked one up and let it drop, staggered on down the long corridor that led to her library.
  6. fitful
    intermittently stopping and starting
    All the same, Meggie slept well or, anyway, better than on Capricorn's damp straw or in the hovel with the ruined roof.
    Mo slept only fitfully.
  7. trowel
    a small hand tool with a handle and metal blade
    “They should all be seized on the spot! When did you last come up here? I could scrape the dust off their pages with a trowel.”
  8. ominously
    in a manner suggesting something bad will happen
    The clouds above her were massing more and more ominously.
  9. notch
    a small cut
    She wanted to see the fear that had turned Dustfinger pale when he heard about Fenoglio appear on Basta's face, too, but Basta just smiled again and began carving notches in Fenoglio's kitchen table.
  10. gouge
    make a groove in
    Carefully, with the tip of his tongue between his teeth, he was gouging his name in the wood of the dresser with his knife.
  11. scruples
    motivation deriving from ethical or moral principles
    When Dustfinger caught a rabbit he didn’t take it out of the trap until he was quite sure the poor thing had stopped wriggling. Farid had no such scruples. Perhaps he had gone hungry too often.
  12. mutinous
    characterized by a rebellion against authority
    The flames here were both tame and mutinous, strange, silent beasts that sometimes bit the hand that fed them.
  13. stave off
    prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening
    Only occasionally, on cold nights when there was nothing but the flames to stave off his loneliness, did he think he heard them calling to him, but they whispered words he didn’t understand.
  14. faithless
    having the character of a traitor; disloyal
    “Where is that faithless animal anyway?” Dustfinger peered through the branches. “I haven't seen him since yesterday.”
  15. inscrutable
    difficult or impossible to understand
    Farid lowered his head and gazed inscrutably at his bare toes.
  16. malignant
    dangerous to health
    Farid saw other ghosts and spirits, too, whole armies of them: malignant, all-powerful beings who tore the hearts out of poor mortal boys and ate them.
  17. uncanny
    surpassing the ordinary or normal
    “This is really rather uncanny,” he murmured. “That’s exactly how I imagined Capricorn’s mother—that nose, the eyes set close together, even the way she folds her arms and her chin juts forward.”
  18. jut
    extend out or project in space
    “This is really rather uncanny,” he murmured. “That’s exactly how I imagined Capricorn’s mother—that nose, the eyes set close together, even the way she folds her arms and her chin juts forward.”
  19. derived
    formed or developed from something else; not original
    As I never saw my father or my mother...my first fancies regarding what they were like, were unreasonably derived from their tombstones.
  20. prune
    cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
    A vine that hadn’t been pruned for years grew up one of the houses beside the parking area.
  21. presumptuous
    going beyond what is appropriate, permitted, or courteous
    “That would be extremely presumptuous of you,” said Merlin, “and you would be conquered, and you would suffer for it.”
  22. imperceptibly
    in a manner that is difficult to discern
    Basta raised his hand, but when Capricorn almost imperceptibly shook his head he lowered it again like a rebuked child.
  23. rebuke
    censure severely or angrily
    Basta raised his hand, but when Capricorn almost imperceptibly shook his head he lowered it again like a rebuked child.
  24. captivated
    filled with wonder and delight
    She thought he was captivated, like a child looking at a caged lion—except that Capricorn wasn't in a cage.
  25. barefaced
    with no effort to conceal
    “And a liar in the bargain. But if you hope to impress me with your barefaced lying and boasting the way you've impressed Basta, I must disappoint you. Your claims are ridiculous, just as you are, and it was more than stupid of Basta to bring you here because now we have to get rid of you, somehow."
  26. unfathomable
    impossible to come to understand
    "He has another name, too, of course, but even he doesn’t remember it. He has called himself Capricorn since he was fifteen, after the star sign under which he was born. Capricorn the unapproachable, unfathomable, insatiable, who likes to play God or the devil as the fancy takes him. The devil doesn't have a mother, though, does he?"
  27. revulsion
    intense aversion
    “Amazing indeed,” murmured Fenoglio, and for the first time he looked at his creation with revulsion rather than admiration.
  28. knack
    a special way of doing something
    The boy knew what he was talking about. He really could tell those stinking metal beetles apart from one another. He himself had never got the knack of it.
  29. belligerent
    characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight
    Belligerent as a bull terrier, she marched up to him.
  30. wretch
    someone who performs some wicked deed
    “Good God, are you planning to slit me open, you little wretch?” she snapped at him.
  31. persuasion
    communication intended to induce belief or action
    But Basta wasn’t open to persuasion.
  32. vault
    jump across or leap over, as an obstacle
    No other guard crossed his path, and soon he was vaulting over Capricorn's wall.
  33. grudge
    a resentment strong enough to justify retaliation
    The giants ate human beings, the dwarves were greedy for gold, the fairies were malicious and bore a grudge.
  34. tentatively
    in a hesitant manner
    Tentatively, he took an apricot and put it into his mouth as if he thought he would never in his life taste anything so delicious again.
  35. niche
    a small concavity
    Soon after arriving in the deserted village Capricorn had had gratings fitted over the narrow niches where long-dead priests slept in their stone tombs.
  36. sarcophagus
    a stone coffin, usually bearing sculpture or inscriptions
    Resa had seated herself on a sarcophagus.
  37. petulance
    an irritable feeling
    He heard the petulance in his own voice.
  38. apt
    being of striking appropriateness and relevance
    “I’m bored here! I’m a scribbler, as you so aptly put it, I need paper to live on much as other people need bread and wine and so forth. Bring me some paper, Basta, and I’ll help you to get those keys back. You remember—the keys that the Magpie took away from you.”
  39. ornate
    marked by complexity and richness of detail
    He wrote five letters on each piece. They were ornate, barely legible, and always the same.
  40. scrawl
    write carelessly
    More and more of the white sheets were covered with his large handwriting, scrawled impatiently over the paper.
Created on Tue May 29 19:22:29 EDT 2018 (updated Tue Jun 05 10:33:58 EDT 2018)

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