Unit 8 Lesson 3 Academic Vocabulary

a sailing ship with two or more masts

• schooner
• brigantine
• catamaran
• ketch

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.10

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

a coin worth less than a penny formerly used in Great Britain

• farthing
• pound
• shilling
• guinea

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

to search thoroughly, causing damage or disorder

• devastate
• pillage
• destroy
• ransack

Tags

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

a stone carving of a strange figure used as decoration on a building, usually a cathedral or Gothic structure

• Sculpture
• Gargoyle
• Statue
• Monument

Tags

CCSS.L.K.5A

CCSS.L.1.5A

CCSS.L.1.5B

someone hired to wait on the passengers and crew of a ship

• cabin boy

• chef
• captain
• waiter

Tags

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.L.K.5A

to follow right after another event

• Immediately
• Occasionally
• ensue

• Eventually

Tags

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.K.5A

CCSS.W.2.3

CCSS.W.3.3C

a length of about six feet used to measure water depth

• inch
• fathom
• mile
• yardstick

Tags

CCSS.4.MD.A.1

about to occur

• impending
• imminent
• forthcoming
• delayed

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4A

CCSS.L.4.4A

CCSS.L.4.5C

CCSS.L.5.4A

CCSS.L.5.5C

a rounded hill or mound

• moundlet
• hummock

• plateau
• knoll

Tags

CCSS.L.K.5A

CCSS.L.1.5A

CCSS.L.1.5B

to flee or run away

• evade
• depart
• scarper

• escape

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C