Benchmark Unit 6 Weeks 1 & 2 Vocabulary

Match the definitions with the correct words.

• crucial; very important

• peril

• extremely cruel

• silent intentness

• primordial

• imperative

• concentration

• savages

• danger

• first created or developed

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

Match the definitions with the correct words.

• hit with a stick

• antagonist

• evil character; bad guy

• assailants

• attackers

• dignity

• self-respect

• trampled

• stomped

• clubbed off

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

Match the definitions with the correct words.

• to fight against

• illumined

• lit up

• ere

• guidance; also $ paid to attend college

• rebel

• when

• bombarded

• attacked

• tuition

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

Match the definitions with the correct words.

• bitterness: also a snake's poison

• venom

• shamefully

• consternation

• without comfort

• disconsolate

• better than usual

• especial

• feelings of anxiety

• ignominiously

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

Match the definitions with the correct words.

• middle

• midst

• harsh

• stern

• usefulness

• virtue

• order

• obedience

• free from danger

• unmolested

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

Match the definitions with the correct words.

• surprise

• astonishment

• driver

• reproof

• disapproval

• traces

• slyly

• wheeler

• path; draws over something

• cunningly

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

Match the definitions with the correct words.

• without direction

• placatingly

• came up; going up

• aimlessly

• attempted

• forlorn

• soothingly

• ventured

• unhappy

• ascended

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

Match the definitions with the correct words.

• most important things

• trice

• great destruction

• arduous

• very tiring

• devastation

• thick

• dense

• in a moment; very quickly

• priorities

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

Match the definitions with the correct words.

• having a huge appetite

• voracious

• designed

• devour

• moving wildly

• flailing

• shook

• devised

• eat quickly

• shuddered

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

Match the definitions with the correct words.

• residential area outside of a big city

• excerpt

• not deep

• plume

• large amount of smoke rising in the air

• shallow

• screams

• shrieks

• small portion of a piece of literature

• suburb

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C