Week 18 Quack

1. To get all of the minor details out of the way in order to focus on a major project.

• Clear the decks
• Cloak-and-Dagger
• Nothing ventured, nothing gained
• Off the beaten track
• Old Wives' Tale

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

2. A superstition; a belief or practice not based on fact.

• Old Wives' Tale
• Clear the decks
• Cloak-and-Dagger
• Nothing ventured, nothing gained
• Off the beaten track

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

3. Concerning or involving spies, secret agents, intrigue and mystery; involving plotting and scheming.

• Cloak-and-Dagger
• Clear the decks
• Nothing ventured, nothing gained
• Off the beaten track
• Old Wives' Tale

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

4. Not well-known or used; an unfamiliar location; unusual; different.

• Off the beaten track
• Clear the decks
• Cloak-and-Dagger
• Nothing ventured, nothing gained
• Old Wives' Tale

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

5. If you don’t try to do something, you’ll never accomplish it.

• Nothing ventured, nothing gained
• Clear the decks
• Cloak-and-Dagger
• Off the beaten track
• Old Wives' Tale

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

6. Modest and restrained, often intentionally to avoid being conspicuous, loud, or wild

• Low Key
• Clear the decks
• Cloak-and-Dagger
• Nothing ventured, nothing gained
• Off the beaten track

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

7. try hard to do or achieve something

• Embark
• Encompass
• Endeavor
• Evidence

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E

8. to surround or hold within

• Embark
• Encompass
• Endeavor
• Evidence

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E

9. facts to make a claim true

• Embark
• Encompass
• Endeavor
• Evidence

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

10. go onboard a ship, aircraft, or other vehicle

• Embark
• Encompass
• Endeavor
• Evidence

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.K.5A