Monster Vocabulary

Objection 

• Expression of disapproval 
• an item that requires the audiences attention 
• A game played by three or more players with cards
• Statement of assertion 

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

Proposition 

• Witness's statement under oath 
• statement of assertion 
• yield freely 
• declare without proof

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

Felony 

• restraint or impediment 
• to assign; commit 
• person who commits a crime 
• Serious, often violent, crime

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Testimony 

• Show to be involved
• A person who commits a crime 
• Witness's statement under oath. 
• person skilled in a specific trade 

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.9-10.6

Suspect

• Subject to or deserving of suspicion 
• show to be involved
• slight knowledge
• a person skilled in a specific trade

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C

Shackle

• rub, mark, draw, or write with chalk 
• restraint or impediment 
• yield freely
• a threat

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Monster

• person who commits a crime 
• show to be involved in 
• to assign; commit 
• inhumanly cruel or wicked person 

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Allege 

• declare, esp. without proof
• show to be involved in 
• a person who commits a crime 
• a decision in a court of law

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.9-10.6

Prosecute  

• a decision in a court of law
• slight knowledge 
• institute legal proceedings against 
• a statement charging a person 

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.L.9-10.6

Chalk 

• used to outline a dead body
• cross-wise
• outer edge or margin 
• to show involvement in 

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C