Once Upon a Time Vocabulary

Definition: To bulge or expand.

• intrusion

• distend

• supress

• implore

Definition: To beg someone earnestly to do something

• heed

• keen

• befall

• implore

Definition: Careful attention

• heed

• cicada

• apartheid

• din

True or False: A reporter can importune someone to answer questions.

• True

• False

Definition: A former policy of the South African government, designed to maintain the separation of Blacks and other non-Whites from the dominant Whites

• Apartheid

• Holocaust

• Colonization

My father was an _________ worker. He traveled all South America this year.

• keening

• quartered

• suppressed

• itinerant

Even today, the effects of the __________ are seen in the African economy and social culture.

• din

• apartheid

• keening

• noise

The ________ mother could not believe that her child was gone, even though the officers that had found his body told her so through her tears.

• audaciously

• suppressed

• befalling

• keening

It's sad to think of the unhappy fate that ________him.

• suppressed

• distend

• befell

Definition: People who stay in an area for no good reason

• loiterers

• heroes

• athletes