4/21 Vocabulary Call of the Wild

Barbarous means

• refusing to change opinion

• Cruel, brutal

• very Proud or happy

• ignorant or uninterested in other cultures.

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Insidious means

• Treacherous, or harm developing slowly like cancer

• wandering

• To ease someone's anger to goodwill or a more positive outlook

• Gloomy, sad

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Insular means

• commanding or dominant

• carefully

• Ignorant or uninterested in other ideas or cutures

• having to do with winter.

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Malingerer means

• avoiding work or duties; lazy

• wandering

• sad or gloomy

• carefully

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

bough means

• a large branch of a tree

• cruel or brutal

• overflowing

• carefully

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Brumal means

• impossible to stop or prevent

• vey proud or happy

• sad or gloomy

• occuring in winter

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Deluged means

• primarily or mostly

• cruel or brutal

• overflowing or overwhelmed

• Wild, untamed

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Morose means

• gloomy or sad

• brutal or cruel

• wandering

• refusing to change opinion

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Nomadic meand

• exising from the beginning of time, ancient

• to ease someone's anger to good feelings or a more postive feeling

• gloomy or sad

• wandering from place to place

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Obdurate means

• carefully

• sad or gloomy

• Refusing to change opinion

• ridiculus, a statement that seems to go against common sense

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4