The 2024 National Book Awards: The First State of Being

by Erin Entrada Kelly

In this novel, Michael and Elizabeth, ordinary kids living in the year 1999, meet a boy from the future.

10 lists 250 words 513 learners

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VOCABULARY LISTS IN THIS COLLECTION:

Chapters 1–4

Jump to activity:
- standstill
- windbreaker
- ether
- fussy
- veer
- heft
- pace
- glint
- equation
- perch
- permeate
- mischievous
- nutritious
- psychopath
- linger
- scenario
- meander
- stilted
- menacing
- inhabitant
- generality
- assume
- departure
- demographic
- context
Chapters 5–6

Jump to activity:
- glitch
- implication
- sprawl
- exception
- thrum
- hurl
- yank
- twinge
- factor
- timeline
- adverse
- manipulate
- withhold
- campus
- fugitive
- delusional
- ironic
- continuum
- physicist
- morsel
- drone
- module
- require
- initiate
- longitude
Chapters 7–8

Jump to activity:
- scrunch
- basic
- unison
- goad
- momentous
- reckless
- desperate
- purse
- accustomed
- demo
- bombard
- cretin
- sterile
- incredibly
- upgrade
- quotient
- recite
- aftermath
- so-called
- disciplined
- suffocate
- irresponsible
- pastel
- blankly
- clench
Chapters 9–11

Jump to activity:
- forum
- fervor
- helm
- palpable
- reiterate
- expound
- green light
- mitigate
- chime in
- infectious
- contract
- eradicate
- threaten
- adequate
- civilization
- contemporary
- eventual
- resent
- hovel
- beefy
- makeshift
- grimace
- presumably
- gene
- maniac
Chapters 12–14

Jump to activity:
- tattered
- emanate
- rage
- tinge
- regret
- preliminary
- input
- deadpan
- quarters
- immobile
- predestined
- predetermine
- consequently
- contact
- nook
- recliner
- enormity
- tenant
- ambiguity
- rubble
- looted
- stockpile
- amble
- err
- interact
Chapters 15–17

Jump to activity:
- proclaim
- disrupt
- feat
- ignition
- crane
- interloper
- agape
- peer
- lag
- according
- sprout
- snarky
- beeline
- stupor
- ecology
- artifact
- whiff
- saunter
- deed
- welt
- colony
- range
- sustainable
- precursor
- function
Chapters 18–22

Jump to activity:
- enamored
- intently
- ransack
- buildup
- swig
- microchip
- divert
- dune
- disregard
- verbiage
- significance
- spirited
- surface
- famished
- outcome
- subtle
- wring
- monumental
- revocation
- inadvertently
- simultaneously
- logical
- transfixed
- hastily
- dismantle
Chapters 23–28

Jump to activity:
- frantic
- reticent
- inoperable
- improbable
- irrevocably
- blister
- weary
- glistening
- streak
- grief
- cache
- drift
- revised
- flushed
- inconsequential
- omit
- hypothetical
- repercussion
- comprehensive
- attire
- documentation
- quantitative
- sheen
- rummage
- linear
Chapters 29–33

Jump to activity:
- purposeful
- stowaway
- loom
- blaze
- pummel
- cower
- teeter
- clutch
- hallucinate
- identifiable
- concurrently
- collective
- recommendation
- revoke
- intend
- register
- furrow
- dash
- souvenir
- sluggish
- imperceptibly
- hover
- quiver
- particle
- diagram
Chapters 34–40

Jump to activity:
- retrace
- practical
- memento
- defensive
- arc
- gibberish
- gobbledygook
- flinch
- hoarse
- margin
- unconvinced
- lug
- doctorate
- tenure
- aptitude
- likeness
- honor
- mainstream
- modest
- behemoth
- emission
- extinction
- reduction
- solely
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