Code Talkers Chapter 12 - 18 Vocabulary and Transitional Phrases

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• strictly; harshly

• refuge (n.)

• to deduct from someone’s wages

• sternly (adv.)

• secret

• classified (adj.)

• a safe place

• emphasize (v)

• to stress as important

• dock (v.)

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• one’s usual mood

• brief (v.)

• to instruct or inform someone thoroughly

• morale (n.)

• to follow someone in a sneaky way

• stalk (v.)

• confidence and enthusiasm, especially of

• doom (n.)

• a terrible fate; death

• disposition (n.)

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• quickly and without warning

• chaos (n.)

• a line forming a boundary

• abruptly (adv.)

• complete disorder and confusion

• battery (n.)

• inexperienced

• green (adj.)

• a group of guns or missile launchers ope

• perimeter (n.)

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• a piece of ground

• flinch (v.)

• to veer and pitch forward wildly

• prospect (n.)

• the possibility or likelihood of somethi

• broach (v.)

• a sneak attack

• ambush (n.)

• to draw back as if in fear or pain

• terrain (n.)

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• to convert a code into normal language

• grim (adj.)

• unpleasant; sad

• dispense (v.)

• to give out or distribute something

• drawl (v.)

• an object that is kept as a reminder of

• decipher (v.)

• to speak in a slow, lazy way with pronou

• souvenir (n.)

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• to tremble or shake

• jaunty (adj.)

• a fake or false name

• quiver (v.)

• having a lively or cheerful manner

• pseudonym

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

• in fact

• on the other hand

• therefore

• and

• because

• as a consequence

• as a result

• if...then

• due to

• however

• also

• additionally

• by contrast

• futhermore

• but

• as well as

• although

• yet

• instead

• moreover