Vocabulary • Ch 5.36 - Unbroken • Context Clues

The police are searching for the fugitive who escaped from prison.

 

What does the word 'fugitive' mean?

• A different name that someone uses

• Someone who is running away from the law

• A wrong or unnatural way of acting

• A connection or link between two things

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

She can't help but dwell on the past.

 

What does the word 'dwell' mean?

• Someone who is running away from the law

• To live or reside in a place

• Hiding or disguising your true identity

• Counting and recording information about people

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C

She felt a sense of trepidation before her big presentation.

 

What does the word 'trepidation' mean?

• A different name that someone uses

• Hiding or disguising your true identity

• Feeling scared or worried about something

• To travel regularly between home and work/school

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

The spy used an alias to hide his true identity.

 

What does the word 'alias' mean?

• To travel regularly between home and work/school

• Loyalty and support to a person or group

• To praise or give approval and recognition

• A different name that someone uses

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

She felt despondent after receiving the rejection letter.

 

What does the word 'despondent' mean?

• Someone who is running away from the law

• Feeling very sad and hopeless

• A connection or link between two things

• A repeated part in a song/poem

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.10

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

The celebrity tried to go incognito by wearing a disguise.

 

What does the word 'incognito' mean?

• Someone who is running away from the law

• To travel regularly between home and work/school

• Hiding or disguising your true identity

• Loyalty and support to a person or group

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

They appointed him as the liaison between the two departments.

 

What does the word 'liaison' mean?

• A statement made by someone in a court

• A connection or link between two things

• A wrong or unnatural way of acting

• A repeated part in a song/poem

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

The census data is used to gather information about the population.

 

What does the word 'census' mean?

• A connection or link between two things

• Counting and recording information about people

• Feeling scared or worried about something

• A repeated part in a song/poem

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.10

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

The counselor was deeply concerned about the student's twisted acts of perversion.

 

What does the word 'perversion' mean?

• To live or reside in a place

• A repeated part in a song/poem

• A wrong or unnatural way of acting

• Loyalty and support to a person or group

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

She swore her allegiance to her country.

 

What does the word 'allegiance' mean?

• Loyalty and support to a person or group

• A repeated part in a song/poem

• A statement made by someone in a court

• A different name that someone uses

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C