Hatchet ch 8/9 Context Clue Practice

The smell was one of rot, some musty rot that made him think only of graves with cobwebs and dust and old death. Musty means....

• smelling of mold and decay

• beautiful

• smelling of beauty

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CCSS.L.5.4A

CCSS.RL.5.4

ow he screamed, with the pain and fear, and skittered on his backside up into the comer of the shelter, breathing through his mouth, straining to see, to hear.

Define straining

• moving to make easier

• trying with great effort

• unable

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CCSS.L.5.4A

CCSS.RL.5.4

In the initial segment of the dream his father was standing at the side of a living room looking at him and it was clear from his expression that he was trying to tell Brian something. Define segment.

• dream

• part

• half

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CCSS.L.5.4A

CCSS.RL.5.4

It was painstaking work, slow work, and he stayed with it for over two hours. Define painstaking.

• quick and rewarding

• quiet and painful

• slow but helpful

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CCSS.L.5.4A

CCSS.RL.5.4

It wasn’t quantity, there were plenty of sparks, but they needed more. What's a synonym for quantity.

• amount

• ability

• upward

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CCSS.L.5.5C

He settled back on his haunches in exasperation, looking at the pitiful clump of grass and twigs. Define exasperation.

• a frustrated tiredness

• an excited gleefulness

• a tired happiness

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CCSS.L.5.4A

CCSS.RL.5.4

When it was apparent that the shadow wasn’t coming back he felt the calf of his leg, where the pain was centered and spreading to fill the whole leg. What's a synonym for apparent.

• clear

• unsure

• uncertain

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CCSS.L.5.4A

CCSS.L.5.5C

His fingers gingerly touched a group of needles that had been driven through his pants and into the fleshy part of his calf. Define gingerly.

• roughly

• sadly

• carefully

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CCSS.L.5.4A

CCSS.RL.5.4