Benchmark Unit 6 Weeks 1 & 2 Vocabulary

Match the definitions with the correct words.

• primordial

• silent intentness

• extremely cruel

• peril

• danger

• savages

• concentration

• imperative

• crucial; very important

• first created or developed

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

Match the definitions with the correct words.

• evil character; bad guy

• clubbed off

• stomped

• assailants

• hit with a stick

• trampled

• attackers

• antagonist

• self-respect

• dignity

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

Match the definitions with the correct words.

• to fight against

• rebel

• lit up

• ere

• when

• tuition

• guidance; also $ paid to attend college

• illumined

• attacked

• bombarded

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

Match the definitions with the correct words.

• better than usual

• especial

• bitterness: also a snake's poison

• venom

• feelings of anxiety

• disconsolate

• shamefully

• consternation

• without comfort

• ignominiously

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

Match the definitions with the correct words.

• usefulness

• virtue

• middle

• stern

• free from danger

• midst

• order

• obedience

• harsh

• unmolested

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

Match the definitions with the correct words.

• disapproval

• cunningly

• surprise

• traces

• driver

• astonishment

• path; draws over something

• reproof

• slyly

• wheeler

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

Match the definitions with the correct words.

• soothingly

• ventured

• unhappy

• aimlessly

• came up; going up

• ascended

• attempted

• placatingly

• without direction

• forlorn

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

Match the definitions with the correct words.

• great destruction

• priorities

• very tiring

• trice

• in a moment; very quickly

• devastation

• most important things

• arduous

• thick

• dense

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

Match the definitions with the correct words.

• having a huge appetite

• flailing

• moving wildly

• shuddered

• shook

• devour

• eat quickly

• voracious

• designed

• devised

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

Match the definitions with the correct words.

• small portion of a piece of literature

• excerpt

• large amount of smoke rising in the air

• shrieks

• residential area outside of a big city

• plume

• not deep

• suburb

• screams

• shallow

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C