Refugee Vocabulary

a public area on which people walk or stroll for pleasure

• promenade
• beret
• sluicing
• elation

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

having an excessive suspicion about others

• promenade
• languish
• paranoid
• recoil

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

strong anger due to something unjust or insulting

• oblivious
• indignation
• sluicing
• squalid

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

of lower value or quality

• vacant
• inferior
• recoil
• radical

to be called to appear at a specific place

• summoned
• incoherently
• elation
• tedious

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

appearing to be in a daze; unresponsive

• catatonic
• fragile
• recoil
• languish

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

the remains of anything destroyed; trash

• debris
• condolences
• diminutive
• incoherently

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

extremely thin from hunger or exhaustion

• catatonic
• gaunt
• bodega
• recoil

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

to become weak or feeble from neglect

• ominous
• churlish
• languish
• radical

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

feeling or looking embarrassed

• diminutive
• ominous
• sheepish
• inferior

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4