Westing Game Vocab

A person or business that pays to rent another person’s property (Ch. 1)

• bookie

• tenant

• will

• resign

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

• A dead body (Ch. 2)

• corpse

• estate

• paranoid

• disposable

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

• A legal document in which a person states who should receive his or her possessions after he or she dies (Ch. 4)

• heir

• eloped

• will

• resign

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

•  A person who has the legal right to receive property of someone who dies (Ch. 4)

• heir

• invalid

• bookie

• tenant

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

• A person who needs to be cared for because of injury or illness (Ch. 5)

• corpse

• heir

• alibi

• invalid

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

• The things left by someone who has died (Ch. 6)

• alibi

• estate

• jittery

• resign

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

Something that is made to be thrown away after one use (Ch. 9)

• invalid

• eloped

• disposable

• will

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

• A claim that you cannot be guilty of a crime because you were somewhere else when the crime was being committed (Ch. 11)

• alibi

• paranoid

• estate

• interrogate

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

• A person who accepts or handles bets on sporting events (Ch. 13)

• jittery

• paranoid

• resign

• bookie

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

• To ask someone questions in a thorough and often forceful way (Ch. 15)

• jittery

• interrogate

• invalid

• resign

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4