Of Mice and Men Ch. 2 vocab

Mollified (adj)

• appease the anger or anxiety
  

• inclined to quarrel or fight readily

• 
  to beat up

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Skeptically

• winning gold

• Pacified; calm

• with doubt or hesitation.

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Ominously

• in a way that suggests that something bad is going to happen.

• to beat up

• pleased with one's abilities

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Derogatory

• showing a critical or disrespectful attitude

• Calmly

• anxious

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Plaintively

• twisted

• questioningly

• sounding sad and mournful.

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Contorted

• suffering, pain, agony

• 1. twisted or bent out of the normal shape.

     "contorted limbs"

• go before

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Apprehensive

• with foreboding

• hopeful

• anxious or fearful that something bad or unpleasant will happen.

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Profound

• strained out of shape

• showing a clear and deep understanding of serious matters:

• sorrowful

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Complacently

• sorrowfully

• with pleasure or satisfaction.

• detracting

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Precede

• slang for lice

• go/come before

• pleased with one's abilities,

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4