The Boys in the Boat Vocabulary

Respite

• A resident of a specific country or area, a habitual visitor to a place

• Plain and without luxury

• Great in size; very impressive or amazing

• A brief period of rest and recovery

Tags

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.L.7.4D

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The steersman of a boat who also directs the speed and rhythm of the rowers

• Coxswain

• Denizen

• Prowess

• Meager

Tags

CCSS.L.7.4A

Showing patience and endurance in the face of adversity without complaining or showing emotion

• Impediment

• Scarcity

• Stoic

• Vindictive

Tags

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.L.7.5C

CCSS.RL.7.4

Austere

• To move in a wavy pattern, or with a rising and falling motion

• Plain and without luxury

• Honesty or directness, whether refreshing or distasteful

• Great in size; very impressive or amazing

Tags

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.L.7.5C

CCSS.RL.7.4

An insufficient supply of something

• Overt

• Respite

• Sullen

• Scarcity

Tags

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.RI.7.4

Two things seen or placed together with a contrasting effect

• Juxtaposition

• Onery

• Denizen

• Resilient

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Prodigious

• Honesty or directness, whether refreshing or distasteful

• The quality or fact of being able to grip or hold on to something firmly

• Great in size; very impressive or amazing

• Characterized by lack of consistency, regularity, or uniformity

Tags

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.RL.7.4

Information, especially of a biased nature, used to promote or publicize a political or commercial cause, or point of view

• Propaganda

• Prognostication

• Resilient

• Dark Horse

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

Denizen

• A resident of a specific country or area, a habitual visitor to a place

• honesty or directness, whether refreshing or distasteful

• skill or expertise

• Showing patience and endurance in the face of adversity without complaining or showing emotion

Tags

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.L.7.4D

The quality or fact of being able to grip or hold on to something firmly

• Exuberant

• Juxtaposition

• Tenacity

• Candor

Tags

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4