Small Steps Vocabulary Chapters 1-2

Which words means unable to walk?

• homecoming

• crippled

• glisten

What does the word contagious mean?

• to infect others

• to catch

• to bend

What is the meaning of the word buckled in the sentence below? "My legs buckled as if I had nothing but cotton inside my skin."

• to stretch out

• to bend or collapse

• to make tight

Which word means dizzy and weak?

• virus

• medicine

• woozy

What does the word glisten mean in the sentence below? "Tears glistened on his cheeks."

• to shine

• to laugh

• bright

If you are kept in isolation, you are?

• well

• separated

• sick

What word means to give the cause of an illness or disease?

• diagnosis

• isolate

• float

Medicine given to prevent catching a disease is called?

• virus

• vaccine

A firsthand account is a version of a story told by?

• someone who researched it

• a person who experienced it

A secondhand account is told by?

• someone who experienced it

• someone who gathered information