Week 9 Vocabulary

Blue Blood

• Blue slushie

• someone who is sad

• Of high or noble birth, an aristocrat

Bolt from the Blue

• Something sudden, unexpected, and shocking.

• The color of a thunderbolt

• When someone is sad.

Born with a silver spoon in your mouth

• Someone with fillings

• Born to wealth, comfort, and privilege.

• Born with a cleft palate

Keep up with the Joneses

• Trying to have the material items your neighbors have

• Trying to keep pace with the front-runner in a race

• To share with others

Keep your nose to the grindstone

• To grind the nose of a seed

• You must watch what you are grinding

• To always work hard

Kick the Bucket

• To over react

• To turn the bucket over

• To die

commence

• to die

• to begin or start

• to answer

compels

• to fall

• to end last

• to force someone

characterize

• to describe the features of

• the antagonist

• to win

chronological

• A math term

• Large, huge, big

• In the order events occurred