Vocabulary Terms from Wringer

Unraveled or worn at the edge

• Befuddled

• Frayed

• Disdainful

• Gangly

Tags

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.L.7.6

Having or showing excessive pride in oneself or one's own accomplishments

• Meek

• Frolic

• Bellow

• Smug

Tags

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.L.7.5C

Squeamish

• To suddenly change directions

• Easily made to feel sick, faint, or disgusted by unpleasant images or thoughts

• Serious, solemn, and somber

• A mechanical device used for reeling in or out to adjust the tension of a rope or wire

Tags

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.L.7.6

Greatly desired or envied

• Checkered

• Frayed

• Coveted

• Teeming

Tags

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.7.5C

CCSS.L.7.6

Perch

• To alight or rest on something; also, to set or balance someone or something

• Submissive, quiet, and gentle

• To purchase or obtain something

• Make an unsteady and abrupt movement

Tags

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.L.7.6

To be hidden (as in the darkness) as if to wait in ambush of someone or something

• Wring

• Hobble

• Flail

• Lurk

Tags

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.RL.7.4

Money obtained from an event or activity

• Acquire

• Proceeds

• Cringe

• Diminishing

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

Walk in an awkward way, typically from pain or an injury

• Lurch

• Gangly

• Hobble

• Veer

Tags

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.RI.7.4

Swarming; also, to be full of

• Teeming

• Squeamish

• Winch

• Diminishing

Tags

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Frolic

• A noisy quarrel about something petty or trivial

• To play and move about cheerfully

• Showing a lack of respect

• Marked by periods of discreditable or shameful incidents

Tags

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.7.5C

CCSS.L.7.6