Vocab List 4 Practice

“I was in excellent spirits. The drive ahead of me, even the loneliness, seemed like a _______________________. But I reckoned without him.”

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CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.RL.6.4

“I had stopped the car at a sleepy little _______________________ just across the border into Oklahoma– to let a train pass by– when he appeared, across the tracks, leaning against a telephone pole.”

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CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.RL.6.4

“Let me explain about his appearance before I go on. I repeat. There was nothing _______________________ about him. He was as drab as a mud fence."

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CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.L.6.5C

CCSS.RL.6.4

“I was driving slowly, drinking it all in, when the road suddenly ended in a _______________________. In front of the barrier, HE was standing…”

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CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.RL.6.4

“He didn’t even look up at me. He was staring at the ground. I stepped on the gas hard, _______________________ the wheel sharply toward him.”

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CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.RL.6.4

“The train was coming closer. I could hear it’s bell, its cry, its whistle crying! Still he stood there. Now I knew that he was __________________ me to my death.”

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CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.RL.6.4

“He seemed to be waiting for a lift. There were spots of fresh rain on his shoulders. He was carrying a cheap, overnight bag in one hand. He was thin, _______________________ with a cap pulled down over his eyes..”

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CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.RL.6.4

“Well, watch for him! Watch for him the next time and keep watching. Keep your eyes _______________________ on the road. He’ll turn up again. Maybe any minute now. There. Look there!

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CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

“This is Mrs. Adams’ _______________________, who is it you wish to speak to, please?”

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CCSS.L.6.4A

“I was afraid now, afraid to stop. I began to drive faster and faster. I was in a lunar landscape now, the great, _______________________ mesa country of New Mexico. I drove through it with the indifference of a fly crawling over the face of the moon.

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CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.RL.6.4