The Veldt Vocabulary

skillfulness in avoiding wasted time and effort

• efficiency
• relish
• automatic
• engrossed

And again George Hadley was filled with admiration for the mechanical genius who had conceived this room. A miracle of ___________ selling for an absurdly low price.

• efficiency
• relish
• automatic
• engrossed

Tags

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.RL.7.4

vigorous and enthusiastic enjoyment; to take keen or zestful pleasure in 

• efficiency
• relish
• automatic
• engrossed

With the children gone, the two men stood studying the lions clustered at a distance, eating with great _______whatever it was they had caught

• efficiency
• relish
• automatic
• engrossed

Tags

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.L.7.5C

CCSS.RL.7.4

operating with minimal human intervention; independent of external control

• efficiency
• relish
• automatic
• engrossed

Can I give a bath and scrub the children as efficiently or quickly as the ___________ scrub bath?

• efficiency
• relish
• automatic
• engrossed

Tags

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.RI.7.4

having all one's attention or interest absorbed by someone or something

• efficiency
• relish
• automatic
• engrossed

Tags

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.L.7.5C

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RL.7.4

I think we’d better get downstairs before those kids get ____________ with the beasts again.

• efficiency
• relish
• automatic
• engrossed

a tract of land with few or no trees in the middle of a wooded area

• glade
• veldt
• jaunt
• relish

It was empty as a jungle glade at hot high noon.

• glade
• veldt
• jaunt
• relish