Number the Stars Vocabulary Chapters 1-4

What is lanky?

• severe and unremitting in making demands

• look at with fixed or angry glaze

• tall and thin and having long slender limbs

• smile contemptuously

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

What is stern?

• look at with fixed or angry glaze

• severance unremitting in making demands

• a single distinct event

• having or revealing little emotion or sensibility

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

What is obstinate?

• worthy of being chosen

• having or revealing little emotion or sensibility

• having many complexly arranged elements; elaborate

• marked by tenacious unwieldiness to yield

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

What is sabotage?

• a deliberate act of destruction or disruption

• having or revealing little emotion or sensibility

• expressing or expressive of ridicule that wounds

• without respect

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

What is impassive?

• tall and thin and having long slender limbs

• look at with fixed or angry glaze

• having or revealing little emotion or sensibility

• smile contemptuously

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

What is ration?

• look angry or dull as if to signal disapproval

• restrict the consumption of a relative scarce commodity

• noisy and lacking in restraint

• marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

What is haughty?

• having worldly knowledge

• having or showing arrogant superiority

• laugh at with contempt and derision

• in the manner of someone eager to fight

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

What is sarcastic?

• having or revealing little emotion or sensibility

• sever and unremitting in making demands

• a deliberate act of destruction or disruption

• expressing or expressive of ridicule that wounds

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

What is glower?

• look angry or sullen as if to signal disapproval

• give or restore confidence in

• treat cruelly

• having or showing arrogant superiority

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

What is scoff?

• having or showing arrogant superiority

• expressing or expressive of ridicule that wounds

• treat cruelly

• laugh at with contempt and derision

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.4