Wit & Wisdom Module 1 Vocabulary Quiz Lessons 1 - 12

Culture

• The way a particular group of people's lives and understands the world (including ideas, beliefs, and values; traditions; religion; language; rules; gender roles; food; clothing; art, music, dance, sports, and other ways of life)

• Those related to a person or animal or group of people or animals who lived in the past

• Argument or fight between two opposing sides

• Less than what is needed; not enough

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4A

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

Beliefs

• Ideas about what is important and how to live in a way that is good or right

• Strong opinions; ideas believed to be true

• Doing well or being successful

• To give up; to give in to another's power or demands

Elaborate

• To work together with others to accomplish something

• Took away from; did not allow to have

• To examine two or more things for similarities

• To expand something in detail

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4A

CCSS.RI.5.4

Collaborate

• Took away from; did not allow to have

• Arguments or debates

• To work together with others to accomplish something

• Established customs and activities in society

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4A

CCSS.RI.5.4

Impact

• Effect on something, to make an impression on something or someone

• To pay attention to; to take notice of

• The upholding of what is fair, decent, and right fair treatment, fairness, equity

• Freedom to do or say what one thinks or feels

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4A

CCSS.RI.5.4

Values

• Strong opinions; ideas believed to be true

• Ideas about what is important and how to live in a way that is good or right

• To support, nourish; to undergo for a period of time

• That which supports life or continued operation

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4A

CCSS.RI.5.4

Customs

• Those related to a person or animal or group of people or animals who lived in the past.

• The country or place someone is originally from.

• Ideas about what is important and how to live in a way that is good or right

• Usual or accepted practices of a social group

Descendants

• "from," "away from," or "off,"

  "down" or "lower"

• The country or place someone is originally from

• Those related to a person or animal or group of people or animals who lived in the past

• Established customs and activities in a society

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4A

CCSS.RI.5.4

Prosperous

• Poor, not having enough property, money, or food

• Wealthy; having more than enough property, money, or food

• That which supports life or continued operation

• To support, nourish; to undergo for a period of time

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4A

CCSS.L.5.5C

CCSS.RL.5.4

Compare

• To expand something in detail

• To examine two or more things for similarities

• To examine two or more things for differences

• To work together with others to accomplish something

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.9

CCSS.W.5.9B