The Westing Game vocabulary set 1

To make someone feel very ashamed or foolish

• grapple

• meager

• humiliate

• pompous

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

To try to solve a problem

• meager

• grapple

• scrumptious

• guffaw

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

A food served in small portions before the main part of a meal

• hors d'oeuvre

• contender

• scrumptious

• eccentric

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Not having enough of something (such as money or food) for comfort or happiness

• contender

• humiliate

• guffaw

• meager

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

A person who tries to win something in a contest

• tenants

• contender

• scrumptious

• guffaw

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

The act of carefully examining something especially in a critical way

• scrutiny

• putrid

• infirmity

• guffaw

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Very pleasant to taste

• meager

• tenants

• infirmity

• scrumptious

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

To laugh loudly

• grapple

• infirmity

• guffaw

• putrid

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

A person, business, group, etc., that pays to use another person's property

• contender

• pompous

• eccentric

• tenants

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Tending to act in strange or unusual ways

• eccentric

• guffaw

• grapple

• meager

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.7.4