The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind #3

Servings or helping of food for one person

• Threadbare

• Meager

• Portions

• Contaminated

A disease that spreads quickly and kills many people

• Simile

• parable

• Meager

• Plague

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Clothing is so worn that the threads can be seen

• Figurative Language

• Plague

• Threadbare

• Protruded

A very confused or disturbed state or condition

• Turmoil

• gaunt

• Plague

• Portions

Is phrasing that goes beyond the literal meaning of words to get a message or point across

• Gaunt

• Figurative Language

• Parable

• Simile

Low in amount, strength, or value

• Anguish

• gaunt

• Meager

• plague

made dirty, polluted, or not usable

• Simile

• Contaminated

• Ashen

• Portions

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

A short story told to teach a moral

• Parable

• Protruded

• Portions

• Plague

A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more vivid.

• Anguish

• Figurative Language

• Simile

• Parable

To stick out or cause to stick out

• Ashen

• SImile

• Protruded

• Turmoil