The Treasure of Lemon Brown Vocabulary

the person with the highest authority or most important position in an organization, institution, or group

• Principal

• Police

• Principle

• Teacher

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CCSS.L.6.4A

Greg sat in the small, pale green kitchen listening, knowing the lecture would end with

his father saying he couldn’t play ball with the Scorpions. A lecture is...

• A large classroom

• Something studied

• A talk about a serious subject

• A strong relationship

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CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.2

Down the block there was an old tenement that had been

abandoned for some months. A tenement is....

• A colonial home

• A run down park

• A run down building

• A parlor

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CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.L.6.5C

Greg had noticed that the door, once boarded over,

had been slightly ajar. What is ajar?

• A hestitant manner

• A physcial position of something

• Eager attention

• Slightly open

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CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.L.6.4D

Greg, except for an involuntary tremor in his knees... Tremor?

• Having little elastically.

• An involuntary vibration.

• Set in motion.

• A hesitant manner.

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CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.RI.6.4

Lemon Brown squeezed Greg’s hand in his own hard, gnarled fist. What is gnarled?

• Old, twisted, and covered in lines.

• Slighty opened.

• An ethical belief.

• Foreshadowing of evil.

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CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.L.6.4A

...then returned the graffiti-scarred building to the grim shadows. What is the definition of graffiti in the sentence?

• Utter indistinctly.

• Having little elasticity.

• Unauthorized drawing on public walls.

• Small deli like store.

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CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.L.6.4D

He vaulted over the outer stairs and pushed tentatively on the door. What is meant by tentatively?

• Pushed strongly.

• A little or no little thought.

• In a hesitant manner.

• With little forethought.

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CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.L.6.4A

It was a large room that might have been

someone’s parlor at one time. A parlor is....

• A master bedroom with a nursery.

• A game room.

• A bathroom or shower room.

• A room in the house where people can sit, talk, and relax.

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CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.L.6.4A

Some of the guys had held an impromptu checker

tournament there the week before.. What does it mean by impromptu?

• A planned event

• No preparation or forethought

• Disorganized event.

• An illegal game

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CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.RI.6.4