Homeless Bird Vocabulary

A garment consisting of a length of cotton or silk elaborately draped around the body, traditionally worn by women from South Asia.

Koly wore a ________ on her wedding day.

• Scribe

• Auspicious

• Sari

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

The disposal of a dead person's body by burning it to ashes, typically after a funeral ceremony.

__________ is more common than burial in some countries.

• Cremation

• Caste

• Monsoon

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

This is each of the hereditary classes of Hindu society, distinguished by relative degrees of ritual purity or pollution and of social status.

In the tribe, there is a _______ system based on skin color with the darker-skinned people comprising the lower class.

• Caste

• Pilgrimage

• Embroidering

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

This is decorate (cloth) by sewing patterns on it with thread.

She was ___________a border of lotus flowers.

• Dowry

• Dowry

• Embroidering

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

This is a seasonal change in the direction of the prevailing, or strongest, winds of a region.

The _____________ has flooded the small town and kept people indoors for most of the summer.

• Rickshaw

• Sari

• Monsoon

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

This is a journey of a pilgrim especially; one to a shrine or a sacred place.

Akeedah wanted to go on a ______________to Santiago de Compostela.

• Auspicious

• Monsoon

• Pilgrimage

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

This is two-wheeled hooded vehicle drawn by one or more people.

 Before liberation he had to pull a ___________ to earn a little money.

• Dowry

• Rickshaw

• Caste

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

This is a property or money brought by a bride to her husband on their marriage.

Koly’s family had to pay Hari’s family a _____________ .

• Dowry

• Sari

• Scribe

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

This is conducive to success; favorable.

School began with a __________ start.

• Auspicious

• Scribe

• Rickshaw

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

This is a person who serves as a professional copyist, especially one who made copies of manuscripts before the invention of printing.

Ezra, was a well known priest and _________________ .

• Scribe

• Sari

• Dowry

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4