Chapter 15-25 Vocabulary test (Because of Winn-Dixie)

To use something all for yourself

• cooped

• sorrow

• teeter

• hog

To move back and forth or sideways;

• shrug

• hogged

• sigh

• sway

Stuck or confined in a small space; closed in

• teeter

• cooped

• hogged

• vermin

To exhale audibly in a long deep breath

• sway

• sigh

• hogged

• shrug

ignorant

• A feeling or an awareness using the five senses

• Lacking knowledge; uninformed

• Enduring, continuing; obeying

notion

• To use something all for yourself

• A general understanding or idea

• A gloomy state of mind; sad

To raise and lower the shoulders, often expressing uncertainty or indifference

• sway

• shrug

• sorrow

• sigh

A gloomy state of mind; sad

• notion

• ignorant

• melancholy

Directions: Match the vocabulary word to its definition

• vermin

• To help a friend feel better about something, in a time of distress

• lozenge

• Medicated tablet or disk that dissolves in the mouth

• comfort

• To wobble; to move unsteadily, with a rocking motion

• sensation

• A feeling or an awareness.

• teeter

• Any of various small animals or insects that are pests

Sammi asked the teacher for a __________ for her sore throat.

• lozenge

• routine

• swaying

• shrugged