Code Talkers Chapter 12 - 18 Vocabulary and Transitional Phrases

Match the vocabulary terms to their correct definition

• to deduct from someone’s wages

• sternly (adv.)

• strictly; harshly

• dock (v.)

• to stress as important

• emphasize (v)

• a safe place

• classified (adj.)

• secret

• refuge (n.)

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• a terrible fate; death

• doom (n.)

• to instruct or inform someone thoroughly

• brief (v.)

• confidence and enthusiasm, especially of

• stalk (v.)

• to follow someone in a sneaky way

• morale (n.)

• one’s usual mood

• disposition (n.)

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• inexperienced

• green (adj.)

• quickly and without warning

• battery (n.)

• complete disorder and confusion

• abruptly (adv.)

• a group of guns or missile launchers ope

• chaos (n.)

• a line forming a boundary

• perimeter (n.)

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• a sneak attack

• prospect (n.)

• to veer and pitch forward wildly

• broach (v.)

• to draw back as if in fear or pain

• ambush (n.)

• the possibility or likelihood of somethi

• terrain (n.)

• a piece of ground

• flinch (v.)

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• to speak in a slow, lazy way with pronou

• decipher (v.)

• an object that is kept as a reminder of

• grim (adj.)

• to give out or distribute something

• drawl (v.)

• to convert a code into normal language

• souvenir (n.)

• unpleasant; sad

• dispense (v.)

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• a fake or false name

• pseudonym

• having a lively or cheerful manner

• jaunty (adj.)

• to tremble or shake

• quiver (v.)

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

• although

• on the other hand

• moreover

• also

• therefore

• if...then

• due to

• as a result

• as well as

• because

• but

• instead

• yet

• as a consequence

• in fact

• additionally

• however

• by contrast

• futhermore

• and