Vocabulary • Ch 1.5 - Where the Crawdads Sing • Context Clues

The exhaust pipe emits smoke when the engine is running.

 

What does the word 'emit' mean?

• Someone in your family

• To say or tell someone what to do

• To be deeply or firmly fixed

• To send out or produce something

The journalist embedded himself with the troops to provide firsthand coverage of the war.

 

What does the word 'embedded' mean?

• To say or tell someone what to do

• To be deeply or firmly fixed

• The boundary or edge of a shape

• To send out or produce something

She would cower in fear whenever a loud noise was heard.

 

What does the word 'cower' mean?

• To shrink back in fear or shame

• The boundary or edge of a shape

• To say or tell someone what to do

• To send out or produce something

She walked along the perimeter of the playground, enjoying the view.

 

What does the word 'perimeter' mean?

• Someone in your family

• The boundary or edge of a shape

• To be deeply or firmly fixed

• To send out or produce something

The boss will dictate the letters to his secretary.

 

What does the word 'dictate' mean?

• To say or tell someone what to do

• To be deeply or firmly fixed

• To shrink back in fear or shame

• Someone in your family