Unit 10 week 1 Vocabulary

Match the following

• twisted or tangled

• influential

• failure of service or a time when something stops working

• outage

• stuck between other things

• sandwiched

• powerful effect on people and can change how they think

• snarled

We could not watch television because of the power _____.

• sandwiched

• outage

• snarled

• influential

My shoelaces were _____ in a hopeless knot.

• snarled

• sandwiched

• influential

• outage

The politician has an ______ career, and the laws she wrote changed the way people live.

• snarled

• sandwiched

• influential

• outage

The little house was _______ between two huge buildings, and it never got any sunlight.

• snarled

• sandwiched

• influential

• outage

What does the word outage mean as it is used in the passage?

• failure of service

• twisted

• powerful effect

• stuck between other things

What does the word snarled mean as it is used in the passage?

• failure of service

• powerful effect

• stuck between other things

• twisted or tangled

What does the word influential mean as it is used in the passage?

• stuck between other things

• failure of service

• twisted or tangled

• powerful effect on people and can change how they think.

What does the word sandwiched mean as it is used in the passage?

• stuck between other things

• powerful effect on peole and can change how they think

• twisted or tangled

• failure of service

The ropes on the boat was ​ (a)   after being pulled behind the boat.

• snarled
• sandwiched
• influential
• outage