Wit & Wisdom Module 1 Lessons 9-12 Vocabulary Quiz

Sustenance

• Cultural history and ancestry passed down through generations by word of mouth, often through storytelling.

• Food; something that supports or strengthens life.

• A flat area on top of a hill or mountain.

• That which supports life or continued operation.

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

Semi-subterranean

• An open grassland.

• A flat area on top of a hill or mountain.

• That which supports life or continued operation.

• Halfway or part of the way underground (part way up from the ground)

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

Oral Tradition

• To support, nourish; to undergo for a period of time.

• To work together with others to accomplish something.

• Cultural history and ancestry passed down through generations by word of mouth, often through storytelling.

• Food; something that supports or strengthens life.

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.K.5

Descendants

• To work together with others to accomplish something.

• To describe in detail; to give examples

• Those related to a person or animal or group of people or animals who lived in the past.

• Took away from; did not allow to have.

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

To explain in detail; to give examples

• Elaborate

• Collaborate

• Beliefs

• Brilliant

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.2

To work together with others to accomplish something

• Beliefs

• Invasion

• Personification

• Collaborate

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

Eating or swallowing in a greedy way; to eat ferociously; to do something with great passion.

• Expansion

• Natural Resources

• Devour/Devouring

• Descendants

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

Took away from; did not allow to have

• Descendants

• Devour/Devouring

• Deprived

• De (Prefix)

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

Compare

• To examine two or more things for differences

• To examine two or more things for similarities

• To add extra support

• Arguments or debates

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

To examine two or more things for differences.

• Contrast

• Compare

• Disputes

• Reinforce

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3