Ninth Grade Vocab 1

Resilience

• Complicate

• Abandon

• withstand or to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness.

• Fragile, easy to damage

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

Pot-bellied

• having a large stomach that sticks out

• Overly-developed

• Slim, Lean, without texture

• to eat a pig

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4D

What the author wants to take-away from the book to be

• Main Idea

• Evidence

• Irony

• Theme

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

to be helpful

• Antagonize

• Alliance

• Accommodate

• Discriminate

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

Saboteur

• To go against, ruin on purpose

• To help secretly

• To destroy with intention

• An avalance

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

Expedite

• Concussion

• Mangled

• To move slowly, deliberately

• To move with haste, quicken

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

Confined

• Objective

• To capture or take

• Within reason, with help

• To limit or restrict

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

flat-bottomed open boat

• Sensitive Equipment

• Transportation

• Cruise Ship

• Skiff

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.K.5A

Conundrum

• mediocre and amazing

• difficult or challenging

• demonstrative and difficult

• positive and uplifting

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

Mediocrity

• Completely ridiculous

• Average, nothing standout

• Above and beyond

• Middle

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6