Code Talkers Chapter 12 - 18 Vocabulary and Transitional Phrases

Match the vocabulary terms to their correct definition

• secret

• sternly (adv.)

• to stress as important

• emphasize (v)

• a safe place

• refuge (n.)

• to deduct from someone’s wages

• classified (adj.)

• strictly; harshly

• dock (v.)

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• confidence and enthusiasm, especially of

• morale (n.)

• to follow someone in a sneaky way

• disposition (n.)

• a terrible fate; death

• doom (n.)

• to instruct or inform someone thoroughly

• brief (v.)

• one’s usual mood

• stalk (v.)

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• quickly and without warning

• battery (n.)

• complete disorder and confusion

• green (adj.)

• a line forming a boundary

• abruptly (adv.)

• inexperienced

• chaos (n.)

• a group of guns or missile launchers ope

• perimeter (n.)

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• to veer and pitch forward wildly

• prospect (n.)

• a sneak attack

• broach (v.)

• the possibility or likelihood of somethi

• flinch (v.)

• a piece of ground

• terrain (n.)

• to draw back as if in fear or pain

• ambush (n.)

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• unpleasant; sad

• grim (adj.)

• to give out or distribute something

• souvenir (n.)

• an object that is kept as a reminder of

• drawl (v.)

• to convert a code into normal language

• dispense (v.)

• to speak in a slow, lazy way with pronou

• decipher (v.)

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• to tremble or shake

• jaunty (adj.)

• a fake or false name

• pseudonym

• having a lively or cheerful manner

• quiver (v.)

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

• moreover

• also

• although

• due to

• additionally

• if...then

• therefore

• yet

• instead

• in fact

• as well as

• however

• on the other hand

• but

• futhermore

• because

• and

• as a result

• as a consequence