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