Music for Tigers Vocabulary Sections 3 and 4

a person who studies plants and animals by observing them

• emphasis

• embryology

• behaviorist

• naturalist

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

comfort, relief

• solace

• plight

• condolence

• accede

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

the minimum size or amount of something required to start or maintain a venture

• technological determination

• ritual model

• intelligence

• critical mass

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.L.7.4A

feeling or expressing overwhelming happiness or joyful excitement

• forlorn

• eccentric

• ecstatic

• incredulous

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

lodged

• uninsulated

• waiflike

• quenched

• billeted

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

contact

• sensitivity

• priming

• exposure

• tissue

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

offspring of crosses between parents with different traits

• matrix

• purebred

• hybrid

• functional

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.L.7.4A

CCSS.L.7.6

strict; harsh; severe

• rationing

• rigorous

• implausible

• thorough

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

pitifully sad and abandoned or lonely

• solace

• desolate

• fleeting

• forlorn

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

a segment of DNA on a chromosome that codes for a specific trait

• allele

• gene

• phenotype

• dna

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.L.7.6