Code Talkers Chapter 12 - 18 Vocabulary and Transitional Phrases

Match the vocabulary terms to their correct definition

• to deduct from someone’s wages

• refuge (n.)

• a safe place

• classified (adj.)

• strictly; harshly

• sternly (adv.)

• to stress as important

• emphasize (v)

• secret

• dock (v.)

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• to follow someone in a sneaky way

• brief (v.)

• confidence and enthusiasm, especially of

• stalk (v.)

• a terrible fate; death

• morale (n.)

• to instruct or inform someone thoroughly

• disposition (n.)

• one’s usual mood

• doom (n.)

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• complete disorder and confusion

• perimeter (n.)

• a line forming a boundary

• battery (n.)

• quickly and without warning

• green (adj.)

• inexperienced

• abruptly (adv.)

• a group of guns or missile launchers ope

• chaos (n.)

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• to veer and pitch forward wildly

• prospect (n.)

• a piece of ground

• broach (v.)

• to draw back as if in fear or pain

• ambush (n.)

• the possibility or likelihood of somethi

• terrain (n.)

• a sneak attack

• flinch (v.)

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• to give out or distribute something

• decipher (v.)

• to speak in a slow, lazy way with pronou

• drawl (v.)

• to convert a code into normal language

• dispense (v.)

• unpleasant; sad

• grim (adj.)

• an object that is kept as a reminder of

• souvenir (n.)

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• to tremble or shake

• quiver (v.)

• having a lively or cheerful manner

• pseudonym

• a fake or false name

• jaunty (adj.)

Match the transitional phrases to their type.

Supporting transitions suggest that the idea that follows it supports, or is similar to, the

preceding one.

Contrasting transitions suggest that the idea that follows it contradicts or moves in the

opposite direction from the preceding one.

Cause/effect transitions suggests that the relationship between two ideas is one of

cause and effect.

Groups:

(a) Supporting Transitions

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(b) Contrasting Transitions

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(c) Cause/Effect Transitions

• by contrast

• as a result

• because

• although

• but

• due to

• if...then

• additionally

• as well as

• as a consequence

• yet

• instead

• therefore

• in fact

• futhermore

• and

• also

• moreover

• however

• on the other hand