Code Talkers Chapter 12 - 18 Vocabulary and Transitional Phrases

Match the vocabulary terms to their correct definition

• strictly; harshly

• classified (adj.)

• a safe place

• refuge (n.)

• to stress as important

• dock (v.)

• to deduct from someone’s wages

• emphasize (v)

• secret

• sternly (adv.)

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• to instruct or inform someone thoroughly

• stalk (v.)

• a terrible fate; death

• morale (n.)

• to follow someone in a sneaky way

• doom (n.)

• confidence and enthusiasm, especially of

• brief (v.)

• one’s usual mood

• disposition (n.)

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• complete disorder and confusion

• chaos (n.)

• a line forming a boundary

• battery (n.)

• a group of guns or missile launchers ope

• green (adj.)

• quickly and without warning

• perimeter (n.)

• inexperienced

• abruptly (adv.)

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• a sneak attack

• flinch (v.)

• a piece of ground

• ambush (n.)

• to draw back as if in fear or pain

• terrain (n.)

• the possibility or likelihood of somethi

• prospect (n.)

• to veer and pitch forward wildly

• broach (v.)

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• to give out or distribute something

• dispense (v.)

• an object that is kept as a reminder of

• decipher (v.)

• to convert a code into normal language

• souvenir (n.)

• to speak in a slow, lazy way with pronou

• grim (adj.)

• unpleasant; sad

• drawl (v.)

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• to tremble or shake

• quiver (v.)

• having a lively or cheerful manner

• pseudonym

• a fake or false name

• jaunty (adj.)

Match the transitional phrases to their type.

Supporting transitions suggest that the idea that follows it supports, or is similar to, the

preceding one.

Contrasting transitions suggest that the idea that follows it contradicts or moves in the

opposite direction from the preceding one.

Cause/effect transitions suggests that the relationship between two ideas is one of

cause and effect.

Groups:

(a) Supporting Transitions

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(b) Contrasting Transitions

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(c) Cause/Effect Transitions

• on the other hand

• yet

• also

• although

• in fact

• and

• futhermore

• but

• as a consequence

• however

• as well as

• as a result

• because

• moreover

• by contrast

• therefore

• if...then

• due to

• instead

• additionally