Module 2-Phantom Tollbooth Vocabulary Assessment

Playful or clever use of words to create humor

• pun

• phantom

• wordplay

• macabre

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

Abnormal or different from the usual expectation

• peculiar

• castle in the air

• insincere

• discord

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

Accumulated knowledge

• doldrums

• wisdom

• mentor

• illusion

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

A plce where goods are bought and sold

• reality

• toolbooth

• doldrums

• market

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.K.5A

A humorous play on two words or phraases that are close in sound but different in meaning.

• idiom

• pun

• homograph

• homophone

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

To see something in your head while you think about it or as it is being described

• illusion

• quest

• abandon

• visualize

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

Two or more words that have the same pronunciation but different spellings and different meanings

• homophones

• homographs

• idioms

• pun

Gruesome; horrifying or frightful because of it's connection to death

• short shrift

• macabre

• mentor

• humbug

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

A boring, gloomy place, or state of mind, in which nothing happens

• chroma

• reality

• lethargy

• doldrums

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

Two or more words that are spelled the same but have different meanings and sometimes different pronunciations; often referred to as multiple-meaning words

• idioms

• pun

• homographs

• homophones

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.4.4