A Long Way from Chicago Vocab Quiz

Match the following

• the comfort you feel with consoled in times of disappointment

• consolation

• a person who is very poor

• codger

• an eccentric, elderly man

• pauper

• a person without moral scruples

• privy

• a room or building equipped with toilets

• reprobate

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

Match the following

• iron that is coated in zinc to protect it from rust

• settee

• a small sofa

• skittish

• make off with the belongings of others

• pilfer

• unpredictability excited

• galvanized iron

• an optical illusion

• mirage

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Match the following

• to turn away or aside

• avert

• a strip of cloth wound around the leg to form a legging

• puttee

• give off smoke, fumes, warm vapor, steam, etc.

• stagnant

• not circulating or flowing

• reek

• the act of taking something from someone unlawfully

• larceny

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

Match the following

• an open horse-drawn carriage

• rap

• twist and press out of shape

• wring

• strike, usually with a fist

• buckboard

• funnel shaped receptacle; contents pass by into receptacle below

• hopper

• make light, repeated taps on a surface

• pummel

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

Match the following

• a surrounding or nearby region

• vicinity

• a sale of donated items

• rummage sale

• wear away by rubbing

• centennial

• a small overnight bag

• valise

• completing a period of a 100 years

• fray

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Match the following

• any of the various small animals or insects that are pests

• quartet

• scraps of meats boiled with cornmeal and shaped into loaves for frying

• scrapple

• four performers or singers who perform together

• vermin

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4