Red Kayak Vocabulary

Match the following vocabulary words to the correct definition.

• destroy or weaken gradually

• heritage

• appearing different; misleading

• corrode

• a legacy that is part of a person's past

• deceptive

• an expression of disgust or pain

• grimaced

• a shallow, flat-bottomed boat

• skiff

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RI.7.4

Match the following vocabulary words to the correct defintion.

• to visualize something that might happen

• elated

• saturated with water; full of water

• insistently

• to demand something that's repeated

• waterlogged

• to conceal; keep from being seen

• envisioned

• extremely happy

• obscured

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RI.7.4

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• the gradual destruction or disappearance

• commotion

• having an unpleasant feeling

• marvel

• state of confused and noisy disturbance

• illuminating

• to be filled with wonder

• churned

• helping to clarify or explain something

• erosion

Tags

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.L.7.6

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• a shake or tremble in a person's voice

• quaver

• created on purpose rather than naturally

• contrived

• bizarre

• agonize

• to expand on something in greater detail

• expound

• to worry too much over something

• surreal

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.7.4C

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• scattered pieces of trash

• debris

• determined, unfeeling, heartless

• silhouette

• dark shape or outline of something

• compatible

• sentimental feelings or longing

• steely

• two things existing together

• nostalgia

Tags

CCSS.L.7.4A

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• wanting to do something very much

• conceded

• delaying

• stupor

• a faint sign or feeling of something

• postponing

• to surrender

• glimmer

• a state of not having much sense

• eager

Tags

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.7.6

Match the following vocabulary words with the correct definition.

• to imagine as a future possibility

• envision

• an area of something that opens wide

• resigned (adj.)

• strange or frightening

• expanse

• feeling that something bad will happen

• wanly

• in a weak or pale manner

• eerie

Tags

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.RL.7.4

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• hardened area of skin

• uncanny

• walking slowly with heavy steps

• obscured

• strange or mysterious

• indignant

• to keep from being seen

• plodded

• feeling anger towards something unfair

• callused

Tags

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.RL.7.4

Match the following vocabulary words to the correct definition.

• to support or strengthen

• bolster

• criminally

• averted

• to turn away; to prevent

• feloniously

Tags

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

Match the following vocabulary word to the correct definition.

• special words used by specific people

• jargon

• feeling of anger

• tramped

• walked heavily or noisily

• resentment

Tags

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.L.7.4D