Module 2- Lessons 5-8 Vocabulary

A small building in which payments are collected so that passage on or access to a roadway can be permitted.

• tollbooth

• doldrums

• market

• phantom

Seemingly real but actually not real.

• phantom

• tollbooth

• doldrums

• wisdom

Accumulated knowledge or learning.

• wisdom

• phantom

• visualize

• diction

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

• visualize

• knowledge

• ignorance

• phantom

Understanding of a topic or idea through learning or experience.

• knowledge

• wisdom

• ignorance

• lethargy

A state of not knowing; lack of awareness or education.

• ignorance

• wisdom

• knowledge

• doldrums

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

• doldrums

• ignorance

• visualize

• lethargy

A state of having very low energy with drowsiness and lack of interest or feeling.

• lethargy

• doldrums

• ignorance

• wisdom

The use of details that appeal to a reader's senses (sight, sound, smell, etc.) to add color and depth to writing and help readers visualize what an author is writing about.

• sensory language

• wisdom

• market

• diction

A place in which goods are bought and sold.

• market

• sensory language

• visualize

• doldrums