Milkweed Vocabulary 23-30

What does the term confirm mean?

• to dismiss

• to establish the truth or correctness

• to empty

• to establish the falseness

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.L.6.4D

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

What does the term contrary mean?

• inclined to disagree or to do the opposite of

• inclined to agree or to do the same as

• to provoke or annoy

• to trouble or annoy

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

What does the term desert mean?

• a sweet food

• to cause severe mental or physical suffering

• empty; uninhabited; appearing empty

• a dry, desolate place

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.RI.6.4

What does the term goad mean?

• the greatest of all time

• to provoke

• a gesture of respect; greeting

• inclined to disagree or do the opposite of

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

What does the term pester mean?

• to cause severe mental or physical suffering

• to trouble someone with frequent or persistent requests

• to establish the truth or correctness of

• to provoke or annoy

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

What does the term salute mean?

• a gesture of respect; greeting

• inclined to disagree or to do the opposite

• to provoke or annoy

• to cause severe mental or physical suffering

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

What does the term torment mean?

• to abandon; causing to appear empty

• to trouble someone with frequent or persistent requests

• inclined to disagree or to do the opposite

• to cause severe mental or physical suffering

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

From that day on, I believed in the cow. A few days later, when Doctor Korczak first said, "Find the cow," my belief was _____. (pg. 116)

• pestered

• confirmed

• tormented

• saluted

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.L.6.5C

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.4

Of course, the day soon came when Janina said she heard it [the cow]. "No, you didn't," I said, just to be _____. (pg. 115)

• contrary

• goaded

• confirmed

• pestered

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.L.6.5C

CCSS.RL.6.4

She liked to _____ me into chasing her. Whether I did or not, she always ran. I didn't have to be _____ the time she leaned out of the window and dropped a raw turnip on my head. (pg. 119)

• pester, pestered

• torment, tormented

• desert, deserted

• goad, goaded

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5C

CCSS.RL.6.4