Peak Moleskine 2 Vocabulary

The climb up the skyscraper in New York was _____________, especially with the cold wind and rain. 

• cringe

• precarious

• audacious

• denouement

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

·         Being asked to quit my climb and take the rope during the last four feet of the climb was _______________!

• dehydrating

• duress

• demoralizing

• acclimatizing

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E

·         Peak placed his “tags”, the painted mountain peaks, in ___________ places that were extremely difficult to reach.

• colorful

• audacious

• demoralizing

• hydrated

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

·     Vincent told Peak, “Your moleskine must have a story, one with a beginning, middle and a _____________at the end to tie the story together."

• setting

• climax

• rising action

• denouement

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

  Peak confessed to the crime while under ______________.  He was tired while being threatened and pressured by the police.

• duress

• denouement

• dehydrate

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

·         When Rolf and Peak’s mom met, they were immediately____________ and knew it was true love.

• sick

• smitten

• millionaires

• concurred

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

·         “The boy Peak has left New York City and is now in a(n) ______________ location,” remarked the journalist.

• dehydrated

• undisclosed

• Burger King

• mellow

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.7.4

·      I don’t have time to stay with you while you _____________ to the to the altitude, temperature, and thin air.

• acclimatize

• enjoy

• embrace

• dehydrate

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.8.4

·         Though he had an American passport, Peak needed a ___________ before he could even enter the country of China.

• visa

• Papa John's Pizza

• Whopper from Burger King

• altitude

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

·  In the past, Joshua Wood was impulsive, easily angered but now he had ______________.  The fact that Peak had been arrested did not seem to upset him.

• demoralized

• dehydrated

• acclimated

• mellowed

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RI.5.4