1BDF Glass Castle Trouble Words by Ivan Spanagel https://padlet.com/rhcsd/r0budu3p2l4q Study one of your vocabulary.com "trouble words" and create an entry to share your learning with your peers. Each should include; 1. The word 2. Clear definitions 3. A Glass Castle quote in which it can be found. 4. A related image. en-us 2016-11-02 18:51:15 UTC 2025-12-30 15:10:24 UTC hello@padlet.com ispanagel https://padlet.com/rhcsd/r0budu3p2l4q/wish/134903729 2016-11-02 18:51:15 UTC https://padlet.com/rhcsd/r0budu3p2l4q/wish/134903729 ispanagel https://padlet.com/rhcsd/r0budu3p2l4q/wish/134903751 Word: Sluice

A gate or device that helps control the flow of water. An artificial channel that water flows through.

“Then there was the time he fixed a broken sluice gate on the Hoover Dam and saved the lives of thousands of people who would have drowned if the dam had burst”(Walls 15)

]]> 2016-11-02 18:51:15 UTC https://padlet.com/rhcsd/r0budu3p2l4q/wish/134903751 Bluster ispanagel https://padlet.com/rhcsd/r0budu3p2l4q/wish/134903759 To blow hard. 
 "A blustery March wind
whipped the steam coming out of the manholes, and people hurried along the sidewalks with their
collars turned up. I was stuck in traffic two blocks from the party where I was heading" (1).

]]> 2016-11-02 18:51:15 UTC https://padlet.com/rhcsd/r0budu3p2l4q/wish/134903759 Convulsion ispanagel https://padlet.com/rhcsd/r0budu3p2l4q/wish/134903761 Irregular movement of the body
"She had gone into convulsions, and her body had become stiff and wet with sweat. But Dad didn't trust hospitals, so he took her to a Navajo witch doctor who cut open the wound and put a
dark brown paste on it and said some chants and pretty soon Lori was as good as new"]]> 2016-11-02 18:51:15 UTC https://padlet.com/rhcsd/r0budu3p2l4q/wish/134903761 Pithy ispanagel https://padlet.com/rhcsd/r0budu3p2l4q/wish/134903769 1.  The white, spongy part between skin and the fruit of an orange or other citrus fruit.
2.  Getting at the heart of the matter, what's essential.

Example:   "If the typewriter keys were clattering away, she was at work on one of her novels, poems, plays, short stories, or her illustrated collection of pithy sayings—one was. "Life is a bowl of cherries, with a few nuts thrown in"—which she'd titled. "R. M. Walls's Philosophy of Life."]]> 2016-11-02 18:51:15 UTC https://padlet.com/rhcsd/r0budu3p2l4q/wish/134903769