Verbal and Vocabulary

"Jack crouched with his face a few inches away from this clue,"

What is the meaning of crouched?

• stand up

• run quickly

• squat (down)

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

"Here was loop of creeper with a tendril pendant from a node."

What is a tendril?

• a shell

• slender structure by which some plants attach to an object.

• a deserted island

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

"He closed his eyes, raised his head and breathed in gently

with flared nostrils, assessing the current of warm air for information."

What is the definition of assessing?

• estimate the nature, quality, ability of something

• to smell something

• to sleep

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

"The silence of the forest was more oppressive than the heat, and at

this hour of the day there was not even the whine of insects."

What does oppressive mean?

• warm climate

• to press

• weighing heavily on the senses or spirit

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

"He was down like a sprinter, his nose only a few inches from the humid earth."

Define humid

• cold

• muggy and steamy

• ground

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

"Jack himself shrank at this cry with a hiss

of indrawn breath, and for a minute became less a hunter than a furtive thing, ape-like among the tangle of trees."

What does furtive mean?

• quick

• secret and sly

• noisy

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

"The whole space was walled with dark aromatic bushes, and was a bowl of heat and light.'

What do think aromatic means?

• having a strong pleasant odor

• an awful smell

• a bright light

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

"The tree trunks and the creepers that festooned them lost themselves in a green dusk thirty feet above him,"

What is the definition of festooned?

• opened

• decorated

• scared

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

"Jack himself shrank at this cry with a hiss of indrawn breath, and for a minute became less a hunter than a furtive thing, ape-like among the tangle of trees."

What does furtive mean?

• quick

• secret and sly

• noisy

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

"The littluns watched him inscrutably over double handfuls of ripe fruit."

What is the meaning of inscrutably?

• peacefully

• impossible to understand/puzzled

• carefully

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