Tuck Everlasting Vocab Pro-Ch 5

Change direction or turn sharply

"But on reaching the shadows of the first trees, it _______ sharply, swung out in a wide arc as if, for the first time, it had reason to think where it was going, and passed around."

• veered

• forlorn

• bough

• rueful

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

marked by or showing hopelessness

"And all at once the sun was uncomfortably hot, the dust oppressive, and the meager grass along its edges somewhat ragged and _________."

• jaunty

• coop

• forlorn

• bough

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

any of the larger branches of trees

"In any case, the wood, being on top-except, of course, for its roots-was owned bud and _______ by the Fosters in the touch-me-not cottage,..."

• rueful

• bough

• veer

• exasperate

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins of offenses

"Tuck rolled over and made a ______ face at her."

• bough

• coop

• marionette

• rueful

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

an enclosure in which birds or poultry (chickens) are kept

"Why should I have to be _____ up in a cage, too?"

• jaunty

• cooped

• exasperate

• retort

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

make worse or make furious

"All right! I'm coming!" she cried, _______, and then added quickly, "I mean, I'll be right there Mama."

• veer

• exasperated

• jaunty

• coop

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners

"His long chin faded off into a thin, apologetic beard, but his suit was a _____ yellow that seemed to glow a little in the fading light."

• jaunty

• rueful

• retort

• consolingly

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

a small figure of a person operated from above with strings by a puppeteer

"But at the same time he had a kind of grace, like a well-handled _________."

• jaunty

• galling

• bough

• marionette

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

a quick reply to a question; a remark

"And why shouldn't I be fit?" she _______, peering at him through the fading light.

• coop

• retorted

• rueful

• marrionette

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

causing irritation or annoyance

"Still, it was _______, this having to admit she was afraid."

• galling

• coop

• consolingly

• forlorn

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RL.6.4