Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed. VOCABULARY

convivial

• relating to, occupied with, or fond of feasting, drinking, and good company

• you pass time without doing

  anything purposeful.

Tags

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.L.7.6

idled

• relating to, occupied with, or fond of feasting, drinking, and good company

• you pass time without doing

  anything purposeful.

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5C

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RL.7.4

forlorn

• adjective. Something that is ......... appears lonely

  or sad.

• to become fainter or more

  distant.

Tags

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.RL.7.4

pendulums

• adjective. Something that is ......... appears lonely

  or sad.

• a weight that is hung so that it

  can swing freely. Sometimes it is used in timing the

  workings of certain clocks.

Tags

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.RI.7.4

receded

• adjective. Something that is ......... appears lonely

  or sad.

• To recede means to become fainter or more distant.

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

mused

• you consider or say

  something thoughtfully.

• is a weight that is hung so that it

  can swing freely.

Tags

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.RL.7.4

The Bitterings .............. about what happened

to the settlers from Earth.

• mused

• pendulums

• receded

• forlorn

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5C

CCSS.L.7.5D

CCSS.RL.7.4

Harry pretends to be happy and ....................

when he is with his family.

• convivial

• pendulums

• receded

• forlorn

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5C

CCSS.L.7.5D

CCSS.RL.7.4

Julie quickly becomes friends with everyone

because she is so .................

• convivial

• pendulums

• receded

• forlorn

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5C

CCSS.RL.7.4

To live on Mars, the colonizers had to work

hard—no one ...............during the day.

• idled

• pendulums

• receded

• forlorn

Tags

CCSS.L.7.5C

CCSS.RL.7.4