The Time Warp Shining Star, Book A UNIT 6, Part 2
The Time Warp
Shining Star, Book A
UNIT 6, Part 2
VOCABULARY IN CONTEXT
p. 243
mechanical
• The mechanical sidewalk moves people quickly from place to place.
• automatic
plastic
• Her plastic raincoat kept her dry in the rain.
• a type of material that is hard
revolutionary
• The new invention was revolutionary – it changed the way that people lived
• changing the way people live or think
stories
• The tall buildings had 200 stories! We couldn’t see the top.
• floors of a building
streamlined
• Cars of the future will be smaller, faster, and more streamlined than cars of the past.
• smaller, faster, more efficient
transported
• They pressed the numbers and were transported 100 years into the future.
• moved through
from The Time Warp Trio: 2095 Vocabulary
pp. 244 - 249
flight of stairs
• steps from one floor to the next
tidal wave of people
• a large crowd of people
antigravity disk
• a small item that fights the force of gravity, allowing one to float above the ground
tracks us down
• finds us
you-name-it skin
• every kind of skin
took off
• left quickly
pods
• long vehicle
lead girl
• girl at the front of the others
killer time cops
• secret police who catch time travelers
Vitagorp and Unicola
• imaginary food and drink of the future
top hat
• tall black hat
blow up
• explode and die
logo
• brand name or label
Yankees
• New York baseball team (booooo)
pitching
• throwing a ball to a batter
stats
• shortened form of the word “statistic” – facts about a certain subject
levitation devices
• machines that let you float off the ground
head-on collision
• a violent crash
bugged out
• popped out
Calamity Jane
• American frontier woman from the 1800s who is famous for her unconventional behavior and courage
Cleopatra
• ancient Egyptian queen
spotted
• saw
fiddling with
• playing with
doomed
• in a hopeless situation