Flowers for Algernon Vocabulary

Definintion: a theory used as a basis for research

• impair

• statistically

• sensation

• hypothesis

Tags

CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.L.8.4B

CCSS.RI.8.4

Definition: examining one's own thoughts

• tangible

• vacuous

• introspective

• opportunist

Tags

CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Definition: old,nagging, mean woman

• vacuous

• shrew

• naivete

• syndrome

Tags

CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.L.8.5C

CCSS.RL.8.4

Formal written request signed by many people to appeal to authority to make change

• Senility

• Petition

• Opportunist

• Subconscious

State of being senile (of weak mental capacity)

• Gentleness

• Impaired

• Senility

• Obscure

A return to a former or less developed

• regression

• impaired

• plateau

• justified

The part of the mind of which one is not fully aware but which influences one’s action and feelings

• Subconscious

• Unconscious

• Conscious

• Senility

Black clouds obscure flashes of orange light against the night sky in the city. Obscure means...

• highlight

• keep from being seen; hidden

• decorate

• make a theory

Tags

CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

fooled, led to believe something wrong

• tangible

• obscure

• misled

• Amnesia

worsen, decline

• misled

• deterioration

• refute

• shrew