Sugar Vocabulary River Road Plantation to Story for Ma

an estate where cash crops are grown on a large scale

There’s the big ____________ house where the Willses live.

• curtsy

• gnarled

• plantation

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.7.4

exaggeratedly proper

Lizzie sits down beside me, tugging her shift over her knees, her hands folded __________ in her lap.

• cobbler

• bough

• primly

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

a pie made of fruit with rich biscuit dough on top

Folks say, “There wouldn’t be any good food without sugar.” Like rhubarb _____________. Blueberry pie. Yellow cake.

• indignant

• cobbler

• cove

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.7.4

someone who travels about selling wares

Who’s out there? Overseer Tom? A chicken thief? A ____________?

• peddler

• kerchief

• bough

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

greatly annoyed; out of patience

“I know outside,” she says, ___________.

• cauldron

• grits

• exasperated

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

any of the larger branches of a tree

New Year’s Day, I hide beneath an evergreen. __________ hang down like curtains.

• forlorn

• knolls

• boughs

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

a very large pot that is used for boiling

Syrup, in the __________, bubbled and burst.

• cauldron

• barge

• cobbler

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

angered at something unjust or wrong

____________, I roll my eyes. Grown-ups think I’m trouble.

• gnarled

• forlorn

• indignant

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

marked by or showing hopelessness

“Let her go, Eugenie.” His voice sounds so ___________. “Let her be a child. You wanted the same for our children.”

• prim

• gnarled

• forlorn

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

the quality of avoiding extremes

“_________________,” I say gaily. “Like Mister Beale thinks I shouldn’t work all the time.”

• cove

• moderation

• peddler

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3