Benchmark Unit 6 Weeks 1 & 2 Vocabulary

Match the definitions with the correct words.

• primordial

• peril

• crucial; very important

• savages

• concentration

• imperative

• extremely cruel

• silent intentness

• danger

• 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.

• hit with a stick

• antagonist

• stomped

• trampled

• attackers

• clubbed off

• evil character; bad guy

• assailants

• 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.

• attacked

• rebel

• guidance; also $ paid to attend college

• illumined

• when

• tuition

• to fight against

• ere

• lit up

• bombarded

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

Match the definitions with the correct words.

• bitterness: also a snake's poison

• especial

• feelings of anxiety

• ignominiously

• without comfort

• venom

• better than usual

• consternation

• shamefully

• disconsolate

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.

• order

• obedience

• free from danger

• virtue

• harsh

• unmolested

• usefulness

• stern

• middle

• midst

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.

• driver

• reproof

• surprise

• astonishment

• path; draws over something

• traces

• disapproval

• wheeler

• slyly

• cunningly

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

• placatingly

• came up; going up

• forlorn

• attempted

• ascended

• unhappy

• aimlessly

• without direction

• 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

• dense

• very tiring

• priorities

• most important things

• devastation

• great destruction

• trice

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

• devour

• eat quickly

• shuddered

• shook

• devised

• designed

• flailing

• moving wildly

• voracious

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

• shallow

• large amount of smoke rising in the air

• suburb

• screams

• plume

• not deep

• excerpt

• residential area outside of a big city

• shrieks

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C