Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator chap. 8 & 9

marrow

"If you would have known what those creatures were, the marrow would have run out of your bones!"

• the muscles around bones

• a substance in the center of bones

• the skin on the outside of bones

• the hard outside of bones

Tags

CCSS.RI.2.4

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

vindictive

They were the most brutal, vindictive, murderous beasts in the universe!

• having a strong desire for revenge

• friendly

• frightened

• having the tendency to fall

Tags

CCSS.RI.2.4

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

flocculated

You'd have been grated like cheese and flocculated alive!

• formed into an animal

• formed into a ball

• formed into a flat pancake

• formed into small clumps

Tags

CCSS.RI.2.4

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

hysterical

We could tell by the high hysterical scream that something bad was out there.

(there are two correct answers!)

• frantic

• out of control

• quiet

• squeaky

Tags

CCSS.RI.2.4

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

malevolent /ma-lev-o-lent/

It had one huge, frightening, malevolent red eye.

• showing a wish to be kind

• showing a wish to do evil

• showing a wish to be funny

• showing a wish to play a trick

Tags

CCSS.RI.2.4

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

preposterous

"What will you do with this strange and preposterous lump?"

• small

• bumpy

• large

• ridiculous

Tags

CCSS.RI.2.4

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

repent

"Although what I did was wrong, it's too late to repent."

• to do something again

• to be sorry

• to laugh

• to cry

Tags

CCSS.RI.2.4

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

frantically

Frantically, the president called the Space Hotel on the radio.

• with fearful energy

• slowly

• quietly

• calmly

Tags

CCSS.RI.2.4

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.4.4