Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy Vocabulary Activity
based on the book by Gary D. Schmidt

Make a crossword puzzle for your classmates using at least 30 of these vocabulary words from the story.

1. Open a word processing document, Simple Text or TextEdit document.

2. Make a list of words and clues. Separate each word and its clue with a slash "/" character. Press the Enter key once after each clue, except for the last clue. Clues can be up to 255 character long. SAVE this document to your class folder.

3. Highlight the Copy the words and clues. Go to teh web page inked above. Paste them into the online form.

4. Click Create Puzzle.

5. Follow the directions - "Click puzzle to see your puzzle." Print it. Or Save a copy of the puzzle to your class folder.

adjudicate
Aeneid
amethyst
angling
begat
behemoths
benediction
bulbous
cantered
cascade
chaffed
charitable
clambered
clapboard
conflagration
conniving
conspirator
contagion
contour
craggy
croodled
culling
cupola
curriculum
daft
debased
deed
deucedly
dignitaries
dirge
disdain
dory
flailing
frailty
gargantuan
glacier
granite
hale
Halo
heady
hefted
hugger
impertinent
ingratiated
insolence
intoning
jaunty
laments
lichens
lithe
mackerel
maelstrom
malice
meandered
megalosaurus