Red Kayak Vocabulary

Match the following vocabulary words to the correct definition.

• a shallow, flat-bottomed boat

• skiff

• an expression of disgust or pain

• deceptive

• appearing different; misleading

• corrode

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

• heritage

• destroy or weaken gradually

• grimaced

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

• waterlogged

• extremely happy

• elated

• to conceal; keep from being seen

• obscured

• to demand something that's repeated

• envisioned

• saturated with water; full of water

• insistently

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RI.7.4

Match the following vocabulary words with the correct definition.

• having an unpleasant feeling

• marvel

• the gradual destruction or disappearance

• churned

• to be filled with wonder

• erosion

• state of confused and noisy disturbance

• commotion

• helping to clarify or explain something

• illuminating

Tags

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.L.7.6

Match the following vocabulary words to the correct definition.

• to worry too much over something

• contrived

• bizarre

• quaver

• to expand on something in greater detail

• expound

• created on purpose rather than naturally

• surreal

• a shake or tremble in a person's voice

• agonize

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.7.4C

Match the following vocabulary words to the correct definition.

• determined, unfeeling, heartless

• compatible

• two things existing together

• steely

• scattered pieces of trash

• silhouette

• sentimental feelings or longing

• debris

• dark shape or outline of something

• nostalgia

Tags

CCSS.L.7.4A

Match the following vocabulary words with the correct definition.

• wanting to do something very much

• eager

• a state of not having much sense

• postponing

• a faint sign or feeling of something

• glimmer

• to surrender

• stupor

• delaying

• conceded

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

• expanse

• feeling that something bad will happen

• wanly

• strange or frightening

• eerie

• in a weak or pale manner

• resigned (adj.)

Tags

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.RL.7.4

Match the following vocabulary words to the correct definition.

• hardened area of skin

• uncanny

• feeling anger towards something unfair

• obscured

• strange or mysterious

• callused

• to keep from being seen

• plodded

• walking slowly with heavy steps

• indignant

Tags

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.RL.7.4

Match the following vocabulary words to the correct definition.

• to support or strengthen

• bolster

• to turn away; to prevent

• feloniously

• criminally

• averted

Tags

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

Match the following vocabulary word to the correct definition.

• feeling of anger

• tramped

• special words used by specific people

• jargon

• walked heavily or noisily

• resentment

Tags

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.L.7.4D