Week 9 Vocabulary

Blue Blood

• Blue slushie

• someone who is sad

• Of high or noble birth, an aristocrat

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

Bolt from the Blue

• Something sudden, unexpected, and shocking.

• The color of a thunderbolt

• When someone is sad.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

Born with a silver spoon in your mouth

• Someone with fillings

• Born to wealth, comfort, and privilege.

• Born with a cleft palate

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

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

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

Keep your nose to the grindstone

• To grind the nose of a seed

• You must watch what you are grinding

• To always work hard

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

Kick the Bucket

• To over react

• To turn the bucket over

• To die

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

commence

• to die

• to begin or start

• to answer

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

compels

• to fall

• to end last

• to force someone

Tags

CCSS.L.6.2B

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.2B

CCSS.L.8.2C

CCSS.L.9-10.1.C

characterize

• to describe the features of

• the antagonist

• to win

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

chronological

• A math term

• Large, huge, big

• In the order events occurred

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4