Chapters 1 - 2 Vocabulary Of Mice and Men

loss of hope; hopelessness

• lumbered

• pantomime

• yammered

• despair

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

pleased, especially with oneself or one's merit, advantages, situation, etc. often without awareness of some potential danger or defect; self-satisfied

• contorted

• complacently

• scoff

• pugnacious

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

a bundle, usually of bedding and other possessions, carried by a hobo

• bindle

• periscope

• triumphantly

• contorted

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

anything that restrains or curbs

• ominously

• deliberately

• bridled

• scoff

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

to become useless or to be stored away as useless

• derogatory

• lumbered

• liniment

• majesty

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

twisted in a violent manner; distorted

• contorted

• majesty

• mollified

• deliberately

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

gloomily or sullenly ill-humored, as a person or a mood

• ominously

• complacently

• morosely

• scoff

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

carefully weighed or considered; studied; intentional

• pugnacious

• ominously

• recumbent

• deliberately

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

significant gesture without speech

• pantomime

• recumbent

• contorted

• ominously

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

tending to lesson the merit or reputation of a person or thing; disparaging; depreciatory

• derogatory

• liniment

• majesty

• pugnacious

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