Wordplay Vocabulary

To take advantage of an opportunity that you have or get something done while you have the chance

• Wordplay

• Humbug

• Make hay while the sunshines

• Castles in the Air

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

True or False: Peculiar is bizarre, weird or eerie; having a dream like quality; beyond real, very strange or unusual

• True

• False

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

To cause, to become harmed or damaged

• Macabre

• Corrupt

• Discord

• Din

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

Gelatinous

• Having or showing good sense, logic or meaning

• Dreams, plans or hopes that are unrealistic, impossible and otherwise have very little chance of happening.

• Without comfort, unhappy

• Like jelly or gelatin, especially in consistency

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.10

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

A loud annoying noice; racket ; clamor

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

An act of being phony or fake

• Humbug

• Insincerity

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

A person involved in an act meant to trick or decieve someone; someone who pretends to be someone he is not; a dishonest or insincere person; nonsense, faker, freud, imposter, phony

• Ignorance

• Humbug

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

Having or showing good sense, logic or meaning

• Rhyme or Reason

• Wisdom

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

Dreams, plans or hopes that are unrealistic, impossible and otherwise have very little chance of happening.

• Castles in the air

• Surreal

• Trivial

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

A place in which you see something, the way in which one thinks about something like a situation or event

• Point of view

• Transformation

• Din

• Eat my words

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C