Grade 9 Vocabulary Assignment

What does the word 'symbolic' mean?

• Serving as a symbol

• Easily broken or destroyed

• Sleep-inducing

• Existing in the mind but not immediately available to consciousness

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

What is the meaning of the word 'merely'?

• Serving as a symbol

• Nothing more

• Easily broken or destroyed

• Existing in the mind but not immediately available to consciousness

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

What is the meaning of the word 'impersonal'?

• Serving as a symbol

• Nothing more

• Not engaging the human personality or emotions

• Existing in the mind but not immediately available to consciousness

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.11-12.6

How would you define the word 'fragile'?

• Serving as a symbol

• Nothing more

• Easily broken or destroyed

• Existing in the mind but not immediately available to consciousness

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

What is a marionette?

• Serving as a symbol

• Nothing more

• A small-scale usually wooden figure with jointed limbs that is moved from above by manipulation of the attached strings or wires

• Existing in the mind but not immediately available to consciousness

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

What is a subconscious?

• Serving as a symbol

• Nothing more

• A small-scale usually wooden figure with jointed limbs that is moved from above by manipulation of the attached strings or wires

• Existing in the mind but not immediately available to consciousness

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

What is "accumulate"?

• Serving as a symbol

• Nothing more

• to gather or pile up especially little by little

• Existing in the mind but not immediately available to consciousness

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

What does it mean to 'pulverize' something?

• Serving as a symbol

• Nothing more

• Easily broken or destroyed

• To reduce to very small particles

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

What does hypnotic mean?

• Sleep-inducing/one that can be hypnotized

• Nothing more

• Easily broken or destroyed

• To reduce to very small particles

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4B

CCSS.L.3.4C

CCSS.RF.3.3A

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

What is the best word to complete the following sentence: "The mower ________ grass clippings."

• hypnotic

• merely

• fragile

• pulverizes

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2E

CCSS.L.2.4B