A Sound of Thunder Vocabulary

What word means to shake or tremble

• merest

• quaver

• phlegm

• graft

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Thick mucus that is usually coughed up during a cold or other respiratory infection.

• teeming

• disproportion

• graft

• phlegm

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Paper made out of the skin of an animal during ancient times.

• parchment

• phlegm

• graft

• delirium

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Brightly colored bands of light, visible around Earth’s geomagnetic poles, caused by solar wind interacting with particles in Earth’s magnetic field. (Northern Lights)

• dictatorship

• aurora

• annihilate

• paradox

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Smallest or slightest amount

• militarist

• revoke

• annihilate

• merest

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Government where one person makes all the rules and decisions without input from anyone else.

• dictatorship

• militarist

• Finicky

• cavernous

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Graft means what?

• Mismatch; to make out of proportion; no longer in balance

• practices, especially bribery, used to secure dishonest gains in politics or business; corruption.

• a statement or event that is seemingly contradictory or opposed to common sense and yet is perhaps true

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

If someone is Finicky they do what?

• destroy their enemy

• Walk carefully as they are weak

• show or require great attention to detail

• pass out from lack of blood to the brain

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What word means to "Destroy or completely wipe out"

• paradox

• annihilate

• delirium

• bisect

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Completely full, especially with living things.

• delirium

• stanating

• teeming

• subliminal

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4