Salt to the Sea Vocabulary

After serving in the army overseas, I has happy when my sergeant told be I would be repatriated.

• Sent into battle

• Sent to still another foreign country

• Reunited with my mother

• Sent home

The student had to overexert herself to finally get to the top of the rope climb in gym.

• Take a break from working

• Give the normal amount of effort

• Give extra effort

• Make an excuse for not doing something

You would need a doctor's attention if you had shrapnel embedded in your body.

• fragments of a bomb

• tattoos

• the bones of your skeleton

• A splinter from a small tree branch

The train, battered like a bruised fighter, hissed in the sidings.

• Smeared all over with butter

• Injured from being hit many times

• Full of passengers

• Armed with weapons

Bonnie enjoyed the melodious nature of Schubert's music, while Matthew preferred the daredevil speed of "Flight of the Bumblebee."

• Full of notes played at high speed

• Intellectually challenging

• Taking only a short time

• Producing a pleasant tune

The basketball player was on the ground, writhing in pain, after tearing her achilles tendon.

• making twisting movements

• rising up after an injury

• smiling

• Drawing a circle around something

There was an old shoemaker with the kind of grotesque knuckles that distress me greatly

• bearing a ring on one's finger

• exceedingly attractive

• repulsively ugly

• enclosed in a glove

I had a dream that I could fly, on gossamer wings in the clear blue skies

• heavy, obese, and clusy

• light, thin, and delicate

• like a hawk or other bird of prey

• blue

If Florian were found away from his troops, he would be charged as a deserter.

• One who breaks the law

• One who travels through the desert

• One who shows bravery on combat

• One who leaves his or her troops without permission

I failed the vocabulary quiz because on my paper the questions and answers were misaligned.

• too messy to read

• perfectly correct

• incorrectly positioned

• missing