House Taken Over Vocabulary

Match the word to the definition

• large, roomy

• recessed

• entrance room

• obscure

• not well known

• spacious

• remote, set back

• unvoiced

• not spoken out loud or expressed

• vestibule

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Match the words to their part of speech.

Groups:

(a) Adjective

,

(b) Noun

,

(c) Verb

,

(d) Adverb

• skein

• unvoiced

• obscure

• recessed

• spacious

• knitting

• irremediably

• muffled

• vestibule

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What words in the paragraph help you figure out the meaning of the word spacious?

We liked the house because, apart from its being old and spacious (in a day when old houses go down for a profitable auction of their construction materials), it kept the memories of great-grandparents, our paternal grandfather, our parents and the whole of childhood.

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What words help you understand the meaning of recessed?

How not to remember the layout of that house. The dining room, a living room with tapestries, the library and three large bedrooms in the section most recessed, the one that faced toward Rodríguez Peña.

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What words help you understand the meaning of vestibule?

One entered the house through a vestibule with enameled tiles, and a wrought-iron grated door opened onto the living room.

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What words help you understand the word muffled?

The sound came through muted and indistinct, a chair being knocked over onto the carpet or the muffled buzzing of a conversation.

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What word(s) help you understand the meaning of the word unvoiced?

We were easing into our forties with the unvoiced concept that the quiet, simple marriage of sister and brother was the indispensable end to a line established in this house by our grandparents.

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What word(s) help you figure out the meaning of the word obscure?

We would die here someday, obscure and distant cousins would inherit the place, have it torn down, sell the bricks and get rich on the building plot; or more justly and better yet, we would topple it ourselves before it was too late.

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4