UNIT 1

The Summer of the Swans

 abruptly, anxiety, conscious, intersection, engulf, procedure, souvenir, cascade

 

The Lost City

remote, escort, interpreter, vegetation, undergrowth, venomous, withstood, foretold

 

Gecko Glue, Cockroach Scouts, & Spider Silk Bridges

altered, erode, absorb, concentrated, innovations

 

The Magic Gourd

rummaged, undetected, chameleon, generosity, pathetic, ricocheting, famine, scrounging

 

Interrupted Journey

speculated, conserve, analyzing, vital, propelled, sedated, dehydrated, embedded

 

UNIT 2

How Tia Lola Came to Stay

enthralled, embarrassment, pennant, regulation, grouchy, resemblance, inscribed, postmarked

 

The Night of the Pomegranate

spicy, unsatisfactory, undone, ravaged, broadcast, calculations, vigil, marveled

 

Zoo Story

calamaties, mitigate, devastating, evacuate, administer

 

Rumpelstiltskin's Daughter

sheepishly, coincidences, sumptuous, sweeten, phase, mufflers, hobbled, prospered

 

The Great Serum Race

pedestrians, outskirts, unbearable, rendezvous, intercept, quarantine, epidemic, plight

 

UNIT 3

Juan Verdades: The Man Who Couldn't Tell a Lie

foreman, employee, gritted, fulfill, gloated, flourish, vigorously, gleefully

 

Nothing Ever Happens on 90th Street

limousine, sensational, precarious, extravagant, unimaginable, lamented, promenade, embarked

 

Building Green

nonrenewable, renewable, adverse, generate, apparatus

 

The Emperor's Silent Army

utensils, superstitious, civilized, excavate, trenches, steadfastly, precede, prolong

 

The Case of the Phantom Poet

charismatic, sleuthing, mimics, array, significance, despondently, sponsoring, anonymous

 

UNIT 4

Seeing Things His Own Way

typical, specialists, peripheral, guidance, deteriorated, maturity, summit, awesome

 

Exploring the Titanic

edgy, clockwise, hovering, interior, formations, intact, severed, wreckage

 

Saving Grace

bewildering, moderate, hamper, prohibit, accessible

 

Major Taylor

spectators, demonstration, prominent, luxury, prevail, maneuvered, collective, adept

 

A Single Shard

derision, ceramics, furrowed, eaves, arid, deftly, symmetry, benefit

 

UNIT 5

Breaking Through

reputation, uttered, quickened, migrant, mistreated, wrath, illegally, ruptured

 

Ta-Na-E-Ka

participate, ordeals, nourishing, encounter, grimaced, anticipated, dejectedly, victorious

 

Many Countries, One Currency: Europe and the Euro

economists, continuous, chronology, debut, periodic

 

Honus and Me

instinctively, decrease, swiveled, shakily, dilapidated, auction, decades, rafters

 

Let It Shine

defiance, evident, resonated, persistent, convictions, oppression, momentum, remedies

 

UNIT 6

Leonardo's Horse

Renaissance, commissioned, proportion, miniature, philosopher, elaborate, envisioned, recommend

 

LAFFF

glumly, tinkering, honorable, formally, destination, immigrated, unsteady, fidget

 

These Walls Can Talk

anthropologists, presumably, immense, portable, nuisance

 

Breaking into Print: Before and After the Printing Press

established, scribes, obstacles, penniless, privileged, manuscripts, guilds, alloy

 

The Dog of Pompeii

ambitious, drowsy, lounge, agonized, revived, dwelling, pondering, vapors