Vocab: Priscilla and the Wimps

What is the meaning of the word "subtle" from this sentence?

Monk’s threads were more ...subtle. A pile-lined suede battle jacket with lizard-skin flaps over tailored Levis and a pair of ostrich-skin boots, brassed-toed and suitable for kicking people around.

• delicate or precise as to be difficult to analyze

• making use of clever and indirect methods to achieve something

• delicate and complex

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

What does the word "visible" mean?

And they were all highly visible in the shower room: lumps, lacerations, blue bruises, you name it.

• able to be seen

• ability to see

• able to hear

• cannot be seen

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

What is the meaning of the word "inclined"?

Priscilla wasn’t inclined toward organized crime.

• leaning or turning away from the vertical or horizontal

• have a tendency to do something

• bend (one's head) forward and downward

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is the meaning of the word "enormous"?

Then, quicker than the eye, she brings the side of her enormous hand down in a chop that breaks the Kobra’s hold on Melvin’s throat.

• Very big

• Scary

• Very heavy

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

What is the meaning of the word "situation"?

The Kobra just backs away from her like the whole situation is too big for him, which it is.

• the trait of the person who bullies

• the location and surroundings of a place

• a set of circumstances in which one finds oneself

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4