Benchmark Unit 4 Week 2 Vocabulary

takes its setting and a number of its characters and events from history

• plantation

• historical novel

• elderly

• gazing

a blurred or smeared mark on the surface of something

• shine

• elderly

• smudges

• accident

to give off light

• shine

• plantation

• misfortune

• dangled

to hang or swing loosely

• accident

• rein

• deserved

• dangled

a long, narrow, leather band that is used on a horse

• rein

• accident

• misfortune

• shine

a home for children whose parents are deceased or unable to care for them

• plantation

• elderly

• historical novel

• orphanage

large estate farmed by many workers

• plantation

• orphaage

• rein

• historical novel

bad luck; trouble; an unlucky event

• misfortune

• gazing

• smudges

• shine

looking at something for a long time

• shine

• gazing

• elderly

• deserves

to be worthy of

• accident

• dangled

• deserves

• rein