Full Tilt Chapters 13-16 Vocabulary

Riveting

• captivating
• exciting
• dull
• boring

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Distort

• To enhance
• To simplify
• To distort means to pull or twist out of shape or to give a misleading or false account of something.
• To clarify

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Adorn

• To decorate or add beauty to something.
• To remove decorations from something.
• To make something less attractive.
• To ignore or neglect something.

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Nebula

• A cloud of gas and dust in outer space
• A type of fish
• A type of bird
• A type of flower

Dominate

• To have power and control over something or someone.
• To be equal in power and control
• To be submissive and passive
• To be indecisive and uncertain

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Mangled

• Slightly improved
• Severely damaged or distorted
• Perfectly preserved
• Untouched

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Cocoon

• a silky case spun by the larvae of many insects for protection in the pupal stage.

• A Butterfly

• (of land) too poor to produce much or any vegetation.

• infinite or unending time.

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Eternity

• to rule over; control

• a reddish-brown color associated particularly with monochrome photographs of the 19th and early 20th centuries.

• infinite or unending time.

• (of land) too poor to produce much or any vegetation.

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Sephia

• a sailing ship with two or more masts, typically with the foremast smaller than the mainmast, and having gaff-rigged lower masts.

• infinite or unending time.

• a reddish-brown color associated particularly with monochrome photographs of the 19th and early 20th centuries.

• (of land) too poor to produce much or any vegetation.

Tags

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

Barren

• an exact copy or model of something, especially one on a smaller scale.

• (of land) too poor to produce much or any vegetation.

• a hard, dark, glasslike volcanic rock formed by the rapid solidification of lava without crystallization.

• sit or stand with one leg on either side of.

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4