The Monkey's Paw Vocabulary

serious and immediate danger

• provoke

• peril

• fakirs

• talisman

Tags

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.L.7.5C

CCSS.RL.7.4

deliberately make someone annoyed or angry

• enthralled

• let

• provoke

• torrent

Tags

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.L.7.5C

CCSS.RL.7.4

placidly

• in an angry manner

• dirty; messy

• confused

• in a calm or peaceful manner

Tags

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.L.7.4D

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

synonym of placidly

• solemnly

• amiably

• keenly

• jarred

Tags

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.7.4D

CCSS.L.7.5C

CCSS.L.7.6

in a very serious, gloomy, or depressing manner

• doughty

• rubicund of visage

• grimly

• doggedly

Tags

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.L.7.5C

CCSS.L.7.5D

CCSS.RL.7.4

a sudden, violent, and copious outpouring of (something, typically words or feelings)

• torrent

• grimace

• enthralled

• dubiously

Tags

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.RL.7.4

having a composed and self-assured manner

• henpecked

• maligned

• poised

• simian

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5C

CCSS.RL.7.4

relating to, resembling, or affecting apes or monkeys

• fakirs

• simian

• antimosaic

• presumptious

Tags

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.L.7.4B

CCSS.RI.7.4

express sympathy for (someone); grieve with

• keenly

• condoling

• beg

• provoke

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5C

CCSS.RL.7.4

of a reddish color; ruddy; rosy

• peril

• rubicund of visage

• fakirs

• doggedly

Tags

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.L.7.4D

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4