A Wrinkle in Time: Chapters 4-6

by Madeleine L'Engle
Madeleine L'Engle's classic novel details the adventures of the precocious Murry children as they travel across space and time to track down their missing father.

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  1. extinguish
    put out, as of fires, flames, or lights
    Did a shadow fall across the moon or did the moon simply go out, extinguished as abruptly and completely as a candle?
  2. corporeal
    having material or physical form or substance
    The corporeal Meg simply was not.
  3. void
    an empty area or space
    She was lost in a horrifying void.
  4. inexorable
    impossible to prevent, resist, or stop
    And this feeling of moving with the earth was somewhat like the feeling of being in the ocean, out in the ocean beyond this rising and falling of the breakers, lying on the moving water, pulsing gently with the swells, and feeling the gentle, inexorable tug of the moon.
  5. ineffable
    defying expression or description
    There was an air of such ineffable peace and joy all around her that her heart’s wild thumping slowed.
  6. radiant
    emanating or as if emanating light
    Then she smiled her radiant smile.
  7. apprehension
    fearful expectation or anticipation
    “Sshoww themm,” she said to Mrs Whatsit, and at something in her voice Meg felt prickles of apprehension.
  8. resonant
    characterized by a loud deep sound
    The resonant voice rose and the words seemed to be all around them so that Meg felt that she could almost reach out and touch them: “Sing unto the Lord a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, ye that go down to the sea, and all that is therein; the isles, and the inhabitants thereof."
  9. obscure
    make unclear, indistinct, or blurred
    “The atmosphere is so thin here,” Mrs Whatsit said as though in answer to her unasked question, “that it does not obscure your vision as it would at home.
  10. disperse
    cause to separate
    It had not lessened or dispersed with the coming of night.
  11. incapable
    lacking ability
    It was as though the shadow had somehow reached out with its dark power and touched them so that they were incapable of speech.
  12. perturbed
    thrown into a state of agitated confusion
    Charles Wallace accepted the explanation serenely. Even Calvin did not seem perturbed.
  13. comprehend
    get the meaning of something
    “And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.”
  14. malignant
    showing malicious ill will and a desire to hurt
    The coldness deepened and swirled all about her and through her, and was filled with a new and strange kind of darkness that was a completely tangible thing, a thing that wanted to eat and digest her like some enormous malignant beast of prey.
  15. propitious
    presenting favorable circumstances
    You will just have to wait until the propitious moment.”
Created on Mon Aug 19 20:07:20 EDT 2013 (updated Wed Jul 23 18:26:14 EDT 2025)

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