St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves

simple and bare; without pleasures

• Confer

• Austere

• Abase

• Locomote

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CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

to have a conference in order to talk something over

• Ostracize

• Austere

• Abase

• Confer

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CCSS.L.9-10.4

deliberately excluded from a group

• Ostracized

• Locomote

• Confer

• Austere

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CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

behave in a way that belittles or degrades (someone).

• Locomote

• Austere

• Confer

• Abase

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CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

to move deliberately

• Locomote

• Austere

• Ostracize

• Abase

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CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.4A

We tore through ________ rooms, overturning dresser drawers, pawing through the neat piles of the Stage 3 girls’ starched underwear, smashing light bulbs with our bare fists.

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CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

They _______ in the shadow of the juniper tree, whispering and pointing.

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CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

They had been ________ by the local farmers for eating their silled fruit pies and terrorizing the heifers.

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CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

An ________, belly-to-the-ground desire to please.

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CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

She was still loping around on all fours (which the nuns had taught us to see looked unnatural and ridiculous—we could barely believe it now, the shame of it, that we used to _________ like that!), her fists blue-white from the strain.

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CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4