City of Ember chapter 1-4 vocabulary words

What does enfolding mean?

• surround; envelop

• a complicated irregular network of passages or paths in which it is difficult to find one's way; a maze.

• a machine by which mechanical energy is changed into electrical energy

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

What does labyrinth mean?

• surround; envelop

• a complicated irregular network of passages or paths in which it is difficult to find one's way; a maze.

• a machine by which mechanical energy is changed into electrical energy

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

What does generator mean?

• surround; envelop

• a complicated irregular network of passages or paths in which it is difficult to find one's way; a maze.

• a machine by which mechanical energy is changed into electrical energy

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

What is raucous?

• bent, twisted, or turned usually abnormally to one side

• boisterously disorderly

• noisy shouting

• to crumble into particles

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

What is clamor?

• noisy shouting

• to crumble into particles

• boisterously disorderly

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

What is diminished?

• to crumble into particles

• boisterously disorderly

• made one half step less than perfect or minor

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

What is disreputable?

• to crumble into particles

• boisterously disorderly

• made one half step less than perfect or minor

• not considered to be respectable in character or appearance.

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

What is wry?

• to crumble into particles

• to pull out of or as if out of proper shape

• made one half step less than perfect or minor

• not considered to be respectable in character or appearance.

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

What is moldering?

• to crumble into particles

• to pull out of or as if out of proper shape

• made one half step less than perfect or minor

• not considered to be respectable in character or appearance.

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

What is chasm?

• to crumble into particles

• a marked division, separation, or difference

• made one half step less than perfect or minor

• not considered to be respectable in character or appearance.

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.4