Vocabulary Review

When Jana finishes soccer practice, she comes home ready for a big dinner! She has worked hard and is hungry as a wolf. Here hungry as a wolf means

• is active at night

• howls at the moon

• wants to eat a lot

• likes to hunt for her food

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

Winter weather is very chilly. Chilly means

• warm

• cold

• fresh

• humid

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.K.5A

Francesca set up a snare to catch the mouse. Here snare means

• drum

• hunt

• trap

• open door

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C

Silverhawk arrives at his homeroom desk just as the tardy bell rings. He gets to class in the nick of time. In the nick of time means

• has time to spare

• is tardy again

• on the wrong day

• barely on time

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

Rochelle had piercing blue eyes. She could quiet a fight with one glance. Here piercing means

• shrieking

• stunning

• puncturing

• caring

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C

Watching his friends argue made him feel uneasy. What does uneasy mean?

• unfriendly

• uncomfortable

• unusual

• unique

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

The drought made people save water for their gardens. A drought means

• no rain

• many storms

• desert winds

• a blizzard

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.K.5A

The opposite of mend is

• break

• frame

• sew

• build

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C

CCSS.L.4.4A

CCSS.L.4.5C

CCSS.L.5.4A

CCSS.L.6.4A

Dad calls our two-person tent our "camping house," and he says our nine-person tenet is our "camping mansion." A mansion is a

• big backpack

• tiny house

• large home

• small car

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

The teacher talks fast. All the students have to write rapidly to take good notes. Rapidly means

• quickly

• legibly

• neatly

• messily

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2E