Benchmark Unit 6 Weeks 1 & 2 Vocabulary

Match the definitions with the correct words.

• primordial

• imperative

• danger

• peril

• extremely cruel

• silent intentness

• concentration

• savages

• crucial; very important

• first created or developed

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• self-respect

• trampled

• stomped

• clubbed off

• evil character; bad guy

• dignity

• hit with a stick

• assailants

• attackers

• antagonist

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• lit up

• ere

• guidance; also $ paid to attend college

• illumined

• to fight against

• tuition

• attacked

• bombarded

• when

• rebel

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• feelings of anxiety

• disconsolate

• bitterness: also a snake's poison

• consternation

• shamefully

• ignominiously

• better than usual

• especial

• without comfort

• venom

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• usefulness

• unmolested

• harsh

• stern

• order

• obedience

• middle

• virtue

• free from danger

• midst

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• slyly

• astonishment

• path; draws over something

• reproof

• surprise

• wheeler

• driver

• cunningly

• disapproval

• traces

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• came up; going up

• ascended

• unhappy

• placatingly

• without direction

• ventured

• attempted

• forlorn

• soothingly

• aimlessly

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• thick

• devastation

• in a moment; very quickly

• trice

• most important things

• dense

• very tiring

• arduous

• great destruction

• priorities

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• moving wildly

• devised

• shook

• voracious

• designed

• devour

• eat quickly

• shuddered

• having a huge appetite

• flailing

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• not deep

• shallow

• large amount of smoke rising in the air

• plume

• screams

• suburb

• residential area outside of a big city

• excerpt

• small portion of a piece of literature

• shrieks