Of Mice and Men Ch.1&2 Vocab & Basics

You could call this man a 

• buck
• bucker
• skinner
• swamper

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CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The man driving this mule team is called a 

• skinner
• bucker
• swamper
• cultivator

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

This child looks very

• mollified

• pugnacious

• imperious

• skeptical

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CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

Eek! Look at those __________ storm clouds! Bad times are coming.

• ominous

• skinner

• profound

• pugnacious

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CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

This stairway would make me feel very _______. It is scary!

• apprehensive

• arch

• ominous

• pugnacious

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CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

The elephant _____ along, slow and steady.

• lumbered
• walked
• plodded
• stomped

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CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

The boy stared out the window ________, saddened by the rain.

• animously
• ponderously
• morosely
• malevolently 

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CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

When I was 6, I ran away from home with my ___

• bindle

• thrashin' machine

• juncture

• jack

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CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

After a day at doggie daycare, Tildie is ___ the rest of the afternoon.

• brusque

• morose

• recumbent

• yammered

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CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

The tree house sat at the ______ of three big limbs.

• mottle

• jack

• bindle

• juncture

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CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4