Word Meanings of The Fun They Had crinkly uneven by virtue of having wrinkles or waves They turned the pages, which were yellow and crinkly, and it was awfully funny to read words that stood still instead of moving the way they were supposed to--on a screen, you know. scornful expressing extreme contempt Margie was scornful. "School? What's there to write about school? I hate school." mechanical using tools or devices The mechanical teacher had been giving her test after test in geography and she had been doing worse and worse calculate make a mathematical computation She always had to write them out in a punch code they made her learn when she was six years old, and the mechanical teacher calculated the mark in no time. inspector an investigator who observes carefully The Inspector had smiled after he was finished and patted Margie's head. sector the minimum track length assigned to store information I think the ge