Harriet Tubman Vocabulary

to break up, drive away, or cause to disappear

• meander
• aplomb
• dispel
• swarm

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

always; without changing

• disarming

• surmounted

• diverting

• invariably

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Max was a little too handy with the snooze button on his alarm clock, so he was _____ late for work every day.

• disarming

• surmounted

• diverting

• invariably

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2E

Harriet kept painting wondrous word pictures of what freedom would be like to dispel their fear of being caught.
In the context of this sentence, the term dispel means

• feed
• fight off
• cause something to go away

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

runaways; people on the run from the law

• colonists
• escapees
• fugitives
• abolitionists

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

adj. rebellious, unruly

• mutinous
• inarticulate
• tempestuous
• lamentation

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

You give out ______ when trying to motivate someone to do something

• exports
• credits
• imports
• incentives

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.1

(of an area of land) lacking vegetation and exposed to the elements

• Bleak
• Peril
• Resigned
• Strategem

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

The landscape out on the tundra, on the barren wasteland was ____________ and depressing.

• mutinous

• bleak

• fugitive

• dispel

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

To _____________ the lies about her, the presidential candidate gave a speech on television.

• dispel

• invariably

• bleak

• incentive

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E