Unit 2 English I Vocabulary

Choose the answer choice that most nearly reflects the definition of the word nomadic.

• "At this season of the year, when California's great crops are coming into harvest, the heavy grapes, the prunes, the apples and lettuce and the rapidly maturing cotton, our highways swarm with the migrant workers, that shifting group of nomadic, poverty-stricken harvesters driven by hunger and the threat of hunger from crop to crop, from harvest to harvest, up and down the state and into Oregon to some extent, and into Washington a little."

• wandering from place to place

• intensely walking

• standing still

• confused

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

What part of speech is the word meted in the following sentence?

• "Arriving in a district they find the dislike always meted out by the resident to the foreigner, the outlander."

• Noun

• 
  
  Verb

• Adjective

• Adverb

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E

Which of the following is a context clue for the word "ostracize" in the sentence below?

• "These were foreigners, and as such they were ostracized and segregated and herded about."

• foreigners

• herded

• they were

• segregated

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.L.7.5B

CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.L.5.4A

Define the word "destitute" using the context clues from the sentence below:

• "Thousands of them are crossing the borders in ancient rattling automobiles, destitute and hungry and homeless, ready to accept any pay so that they may eat and feed their children."

• lacking basic necessities

• very fortunate

• having everything; spoiled

• relentless; persistent

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.L.7.5B

CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.L.9-10.4A

Write one sentence using the word below:

• ingenuity (n.)

  the quality of being clever or resourceful

• Example sentence: Steven had the ingenuity to make a toy car out of plastic straws.

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E

CCSS.L.2.4C

The meaning of the word "cultivate" in the sentence below might be to ____.

• They are descendants of men who crossed into the middle west, who won their lands by fighting, who cultivated the prairies and stayed with them until they went back to the desert."

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Determine the definition of the word "anachronistic" based on the following sentence:

• "And they are strangely anachronistic in one way: Having been brought up in the prairies where industrialization never penetrated, they have jumped with no transition from the old agrarian, self-containing farm where nearly everything used was raised or manufactured, to a system of agriculture so industrialized that the man who plants a crop does not often see, let alone harvest, the fruit of his planting, where the migrant has no contact with the growth cycle."

• Not belonging to a specific time period

• 
  Belonging to the time period they presently live in

• 
  Easily adjusted to new norms

• too advanced

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4