The House That Jane Built: Vocabulary

fine or rich in quality

• elegant

• generous

• transform

• peaceful

to promise or pledge in a serious way

• flocked

• tackled

• vowed

• community

to try to master or solve

• transform

• tackled

• outhouse

• elegant

willing to give or share; not selfish

• community

• ramshackle

• transform

• generous

calm; free from conflict

• vowed

• peaceful

• elegant

• generous

to change the nature, character, use, or condition of

• transform

• ramshackle

• outhouse

• flocked

Before trying to ________________ the math problem, the students looked over it carefully

• elegant

• tackle

• transform

• ramshackle

It took one coat of fresh paint to ____________________ the old building.

• peaceful

• outhouse

• ramshackle

• transform

We went to the art gallery and looked at all of the _________________ paintings.

• vowed

• tackle

• elegant

• flocked

Jane Addams was very _________________ with her money and time.

• generous

• peaceful

• elegant

• community