If someone is reluctant to do something, he or she does not want to do it.

Which would you be more reluctant to do –

clean your room or play outside? Why?

Something is rumpled if it is wrinkled or messy.

How can you keep clothes from becoming

rumpled?

If you feel surge of a particular feeling, you feel it suddenly and very strongly.

What surge of emotion might you feel if you

found a lost pet?

Someone who is inspecting something is looking at it very carefully.

If you were inspecting a bicycle you wanted to buy, which parts would you look

at?

Something that is taut has been stretched or pulled very tightly.

Does a wire used by a high-wire artist have to be taut?

Why?

If you untangled something, you untied knots in it or straightened it if it was twisted.

How could you untangle a fishing line?

If a place resounded, then it became filled with sound.

What noises resounded from the playground today?

If something lurked somewhere, it waited there quietly hidden, usually before doing something bad.

If a coyote lurked near a chicken coop, would you worry? Why or why not?