Amal Unbound vocabulary: Chapters 1-5

I was lucky to belong to one of the more _______ families in Punjabi village ...

• destitute
• poor
• prosperous

• impoverished

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

She pointed to the building that had appeared next to our village ______.

• temple

• mosque

• church

• chapel

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

This area was far enough from the heart of the fields where our workers spent most of their time fertilizing the earth and keeping the groves and stalks trimmed and cared for, but even if they _____ to the edges, the shade trees here were thick and leafy, shielding us from view.

• savored

• quivered

• vendors

• ventured

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The clink of glass bracelets shattered our ________.

• solitude

• mood

• prosperous

• vendors

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

Is Amma okay? Rabia asked. Her lower lip ______.

• surpass

• savored

• ventured

• quivered

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Think you could convince Hafsa to give it a chance? You know how she _____ the others to her side.

• savors

• quivers

• rallies

• surpasses

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.6.4

This is what I remember most about my last afternoon at school - the smell of the dusty chalkboard, the sound of the students _____ outside the door, and, mostly, how easily I took my ordinary life for granted.

• mosque

• lingering

• solitude

• surpass

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

"Remember last week?" Hafsa said. "How she went on and on about _________?

• whiffs

• lure

• constellations

• savored

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

How fast did airplanes fly? Why did some leave ____ of clouds in their wake and others didn't?

• whiffs

• commotion

• conspiracies

• constellations

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

"You need to stop with the Safa _______ all the time." I told him.

• prosperous

• rallies

• whiffs

• conspiracies

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3