"Of Mice and Men" Chapters 1 + 2 Vocabulary

a bundle, usually of bedding and other possessions, carried by a hobo.

• Bindle

• Lumbered

• Liniment

• Bridled

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

loss of hope; hopelessness

• despair

• scoff

• pugnacious

• contorted

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

to become useless or to be stored away as useless

• lumbered

• derogatory

• complacently

• scoff

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

gloomily or sullenly ill-humored, as a person or mood.

• morosely

• periscope

• bindle

• ominously

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

significant gesture without speech

• pantomime

• despair

• liniment

• bridled

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

an optical instrument for viewing objects that are above the level of direct sight or in an otherwise obstructed field of vision

• periscope

• pantomime

• contorted

• triumphantly

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

lying down; reclining; leaning

• recumbent

• yammered

• contorted

• pugnacious

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

to speak derisively; mock; jeer

• scoff

• derogatory

• lumbered

• deliberately

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

exulting over victory; rejoicing over success; exultant

• triumphantly

• morosely

• liniment

• pugnacious

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

to whine or complain

• yammered

• derogatory

• pantomime

• pugnacious

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4