Vocabulary • Ch 3.3 - Romeo and Juliet • Context Clues

Vultures are often attracted to carrion.

 

What does the word 'carrion' mean?

• Difficulties or challenges that someone faces

• To make peace or find agreement

• Dead animals that are decaying

• Adjusted to the right amount or level

Be sure to heed the warning signs to avoid any accidents.

 

What does the word 'heed' mean?

• To pay attention and listen carefully

• To go off topic or talk about something else

• A temporary stay or visit somewhere

• To forgive someone for a mistake

He wore a sullen expression throughout the entire meeting.

 

What does the word 'sullen' mean?

• Feeling or showing unhappiness or gloom

• A big disaster or tragedy

• To go up or climb higher

• To pay attention and listen carefully

The team is engaged in a heated dispute over the ownership of the company.

 

What does the word 'dispute' mean?

• An argument or disagreement between people

• Difficulties or challenges that someone faces

• To make peace or find agreement

• To indicate or represent something specifically

The priest absolved him of his sins.

 

What does the word 'absolve' mean?

• To forgive someone for a mistake

• To claim or declare something openly

• Feeling or showing unhappiness or gloom

• An argument or disagreement between people