"The Sniper" Vocabulary Quiz

beleaguered

• a person who supports a cause or pursues an interest with extreme enthusiasm

• at irregular intervals; intermittently

• surrounded; besieged

• a trick

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Fanatic

• a person who supports a cause or pursues an interest with extreme enthusiasm

• to become embedded or stuck

• severe; stern

• to fall off balance; lurch

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

Definition: to become embedded or stuck

• reel

• ascetic

• lodge

• identity

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

Ruse

• bitter regret

• to fall off balance; lurch

• a trick

• at irregular intervals; intermittently

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Definition: to fall off balance; lurch

• enveloped

• lodge

• reel

• ruse

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Definition: bitter regret

• identity

• ruse

• remorse

• fanatic

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

Characterized by or suggesting the practice of severe self-discipline and abstention from all forms of indulgence, typically for religious reasons.

• ascetic

• tattered

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

(of a bone or hard object) broken; cracked.

• fractured

• reel

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

A sudden attack or violent expression of a particular emotion or activity.

• paroxysm

• reel

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Old and torn; in poor condition.

• remorse

• tattered

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4