Benchmark Unit 6 Weeks 1 & 2 Vocabulary

Match the definitions with the correct words.

• concentration

• savages

• extremely cruel

• first created or developed

• danger

• peril

• crucial; very important

• imperative

• primordial

• silent intentness

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.

• stomped

• trampled

• hit with a stick

• dignity

• attackers

• clubbed off

• self-respect

• antagonist

• evil character; bad guy

• assailants

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.

• guidance; also $ paid to attend college

• ere

• when

• illumined

• attacked

• tuition

• lit up

• bombarded

• to fight against

• rebel

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

Match the definitions with the correct words.

• better than usual

• venom

• feelings of anxiety

• disconsolate

• without comfort

• consternation

• shamefully

• especial

• bitterness: also a snake's poison

• 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.

• harsh

• virtue

• free from danger

• stern

• usefulness

• midst

• order

• obedience

• middle

• 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.

• path; draws over something

• wheeler

• surprise

• reproof

• slyly

• astonishment

• disapproval

• cunningly

• driver

• traces

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.

• attempted

• aimlessly

• unhappy

• ascended

• came up; going up

• forlorn

• without direction

• placatingly

• soothingly

• ventured

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.

• thick

• arduous

• in a moment; very quickly

• priorities

• very tiring

• dense

• great destruction

• trice

• most important things

• devastation

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

• voracious

• eat quickly

• shuddered

• shook

• devised

• designed

• flailing

• moving wildly

• devour

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.

• large amount of smoke rising in the air

• shrieks

• screams

• suburb

• small portion of a piece of literature

• excerpt

• residential area outside of a big city

• plume

• not deep

• shallow

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C