"The Seventh Man" Vocabulary

Definition. adj., involving extreme danger or disaster.

• desperate

• premonition

• meditative

• entranced

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

Sentence fill-in. "I stood rooted to the sea wall, _______, waiting for it to attack. What good would it do to run, I thought, now that K. had been taken?"

• meditative

• entranced

• desperate

• profound

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

Definition. adj., intense; deep

• entranced

• hallucination

• profound

• premonition

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

Sentence fill-in. "Despite all these precautions, I couldn't get rid of the image of myself drowning. Like K.'s cold hand, this dark _______ caught hold of my mind and refused to let go."

• hallucination

• profound

• premonition

• desperate

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

Definition. adj,, given to extended thought.

• desperate

• profound

• hallucination

• meditative

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

Sentence fill-in. "The time was after four o'clock, and the soft sun of late afternoon embraced everything below as it began its long, almost _____, descent to the west."

• desperate

• premonition

• hallucination

• meditative

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Definition. n., something perceived that has no reality.

• hallucination

• entranced

• premonition

• profound

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Sentence fill-in. "The silence came over everything again-a ________ silence, as though sound itself had been ripped from the earth."

• premonition

• desperate

• hallucination

• entranced

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Definition. n., feeling that something bad will happen.

• entranced

• premonition

• profound

• meditative

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

Sentence fill-in. "The intense look of hatred I thought I saw on his face had been nothing but a reflection of the ______ terror that had taken control of me for the moment."

• hallucination

• premonition

• meditative

• profound

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.7.4