The Book Thief Part 3 Vocab

Aptitude

• the natural ability to do something

• hopelessly and in low spirits

• required

• unaware

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

benign

• disgust; scorn

• to avoid

• harmless

• babbled

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

bittersweet

• going against what is expected

• passed by

• to offer or give

• having both pleasant and depressing characteristics

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

brandished

• the act of taking something by force

• waved like a sword

• evil

• to alter or deform

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

compulsive

• done impulsively and without much planning

• crouched in fear

• evil

• to criticize

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

contempt

• to alter or deform

• passed by

• disgust; scorn

• out of place

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

cowered

• to imagine

• unable to be disproved

• crouched in fear

• disapproval

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

despondently

• hopelessly

• rapidly changed direction

• destruction; chaos

• to offer or give

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

distort

• the natural ability to do something

• trusted with a secret

• to alter or deform

• perfectly neat; free of flws

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

ecstasty

• waved like a sword

• a group of different things put together in a group

• unpredictable; changeable

• extreme happiness

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4