Veldt

to shock; greatly dismay or horrify

• automatic
• engrossed
• appall
• glade

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

operating with minimal human intervention; independent of external control

• automatic
• jaunt
• relish
• efficiency

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

to call forth or command solemnly; to summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic

• engrossed
• conjure
• relish
• jaunt

skillfulness in avoiding wasted time and effort

• automatic
• efficiency
• insufferable
• appall

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

a quick trip; journey taken for pleasure

• glade
• excursion
• jaunt
• relish

elevated open grassland in southern Africa

• veldt
• glade
• plateau
• tundra

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

having all one's attention or interest absorbed by someone or something

• conjure
• attentive
• captivate
• engrossed

"And again George Hadley was filled with admiration for the mechanical genius who had conceived this room. A miracle of ________ selling for an absurdly low price."

• efficiency 
• engrossed
• glade
• jaunt

"Outside in the hall, with the door slammed he was laughing and she was crying, and they both stood _________ at the other's reaction."

• relish
• appalled
• insufferable
• conjure

"Now, as george and Lydia Hadley stood in the center of the room, the walls began to purr and recede into crystalline distance, it seemed, and presently an African _________ appeared, in three dimensions, on all sides, in color reduced to the final pebble and bit of straw."

• relish
• jaunt 
• glade
• veldt