Code Talkers Chapter 12 - 18 Vocabulary and Transitional Phrases

Match the vocabulary terms to their correct definition

• to stress as important

• refuge (n.)

• to deduct from someone’s wages

• dock (v.)

• strictly; harshly

• sternly (adv.)

• secret

• classified (adj.)

• a safe place

• emphasize (v)

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• a terrible fate; death

• doom (n.)

• one’s usual mood

• morale (n.)

• to follow someone in a sneaky way

• brief (v.)

• confidence and enthusiasm, especially of

• disposition (n.)

• to instruct or inform someone thoroughly

• stalk (v.)

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• a line forming a boundary

• chaos (n.)

• inexperienced

• perimeter (n.)

• quickly and without warning

• green (adj.)

• complete disorder and confusion

• abruptly (adv.)

• a group of guns or missile launchers ope

• battery (n.)

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• to draw back as if in fear or pain

• broach (v.)

• a piece of ground

• flinch (v.)

• a sneak attack

• terrain (n.)

• the possibility or likelihood of somethi

• ambush (n.)

• to veer and pitch forward wildly

• prospect (n.)

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• to speak in a slow, lazy way with pronou

• drawl (v.)

• unpleasant; sad

• souvenir (n.)

• to convert a code into normal language

• dispense (v.)

• an object that is kept as a reminder of

• decipher (v.)

• to give out or distribute something

• grim (adj.)

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• having a lively or cheerful manner

• pseudonym

• a fake or false name

• quiver (v.)

• to tremble or shake

• 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

• however

• due to

• although

• as a result

• and

• as well as

• yet

• but

• because

• moreover

• in fact

• additionally

• by contrast

• as a consequence

• on the other hand

• if...then

• instead

• also

• therefore

• futhermore