Reading Vocabulary

in fear of or dread of possible evil or harm

• aptitude

• apprehensive

• attentive

• vigilant

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

inherent ability or skill

• banishment

• falter

• debris

• aptitude

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

to frighten someone by pretending to be stronger than one is

• brackish

• bluff

• dismal

• counter

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

to speak in response to

• cunning

• contortion

• counter

• pertinent

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4B

CCSS.L.3.4C

CCSS.RF.3.3A

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

skilled in deception

• counter

• cunning

• muster

• quell

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

narrate means to

• give a detailed account or tell a story

• not clearly understood or expressed

• outlandish

• threatening evil or tragic developments

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

to gather or bring together

• pertinent

• quell

• impending

• muster

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

moving hesitantly as if about to give away

• foresight

• falter

• engross

• cunning

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

causing gloom or dejection; gloomy; dreary; cheerless; melancholy:

• disdain

• falter

• dismal

• bluff

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

close in time or about to occur

• impending

• dismal

• pertinent

• counter

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C