Esperanza Rising Chapters 3 & 4 Vocabulary

How is the word anguished best used in the sentences below?

• The little girl was smiling and you could see the anguish on her face.

• You could see the pain and anguish in her face as she cried.

• Be careful as the anguish rises above the sea

• Nobody is safe from the anguish of winning the game

Cordial means

• Mean or angry

• warm and sincere

• happy and joyful

• hostile

unpredictable means

• always on time

• missing

• late

• unreliable; random, irregular

Pick the best sentence that describes the word devious.

• The student was devious in hiding the note from the teacher.

• The student is always kind and devious.

• The student smiled and was devious.

• The student was nice and never devious

indebted

• paid in full

• grateful or owing a favor

• always kind

• to never be on time

Choose the best sentence for the word valise

• A valise is a vine that grows over something.

• The valise was parked in the wrong parking spot.

• I never got the valise in the mailbox.

• The bellhop took the valise to the guests room.

What does the word indignation mean?

• worthy of love

• kind and sensible

• unjust, mean, or not fair; unworthy

• never on time and not reasonable

pervade means

• to stay in one place

• to spread throughout

• standing still

• to not understand something

Choose the BEST sentence that describes the word venom from this week's vocabulary.

• The policeman was kind with his venom.

• Esperanza was so mad and angry she said the words "I hate you"! Those words were like venom coming from her mouth.

• The snake was not venomous, that is why he had no venom.

• Never a venomous bone in her body.

Methodical means

• to be unorganized

• not attentive to detail

• unanswered

• in a systematic manner, or an organized procedure or plan