Jewels from the Sea/ Vocabulary

What is the meaning of the word abundant?

• present in large quantities

• someone who has few resources or little wealth

• showing cleverness or skillfulness

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

What is the meaning of the word impoverished?

• present in large quantities

• someone who has few resources or little wealth / very poor

• showing cleverness or skillfulness

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

What is the meaning of the word ingenuity?

• showing cleverness or skillfulness

• has few resources or little wealth

• present in large quantities

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

What is the meaning of the word productivity?

• the ability to do as much work as possible in a particular period.

• a farmer who rents part of another farmer’s land by paying the farmland owner with money or a portion of the crop.

• being alone

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

What is the meaning of the word sharecropper?

• the rate at which a person or company makes or does something

• being alone

• a farmer who rents part of another farmer’s land by paying the farmland owner with money or a portion of the crop

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is the meaning of the word solitude?

• the rate at which a person or company makes or does something

• being alone

• a farmer who rents part of another farmer’s land by paying the farmland owner with money or a portion of the crop

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

What is the meaning of the word unearthed?

• not protected from the wind

• dug something up or gotten it out of the earth

• has few resources or little wealth

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

What is the meaning of the word windswept?

• has few resources or little wealth

• not protected from the wind

• dug something up or gotten it out of the earth

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4D