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WorksheetsThe Great Serum Race Vocabulary
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 6mins
pedestrian
someone who walks
a widespread sickness
someone who lives in an area
dangerous
treacherous
deadly
dangerous
defensive
determined
vanish
arrive
stay
resist
disappear
quarantine
a hospital for widespread sickness
a situation of separating ailing patients from healthy patients
a highly contagious disease, with a fever and sore throat
a dangerous situation
perish
come back to life after being dead
die
widespread illness
unfortunate news
rendezvous
a French bread
a necessary medicine
separating sick from well
an intentional meeting
The ___________________ conditions in Alaska made travel by dog sled very treacherous.
eerie
fierce
pedestrian
perish
Shoes and clothes made of ______________________ helped Alaskan natives survive in wet conditions.
frostbite
snowbound
buckshot
sealskin
The mushers were rushing the _________________________ ______________________________ to Nome as quickly as they could.
epidemic plight
lethal antitoxin
diphtheria serum
rendezvous gale
The _______________- force winds made it difficult to see the other musher at their _______________________ point.
windswept, caretaker
underside, railroad
lethal, intercept
gale, rendezvous
Because the __________________ tracks only went so far, the mushers had to transport the serum across the ____________ wilderness of western Alaska.
railroad, windswept
partway, frostbite
resident, lethal
community, gale
The Nome _______________________ rejoiced when the diligent and _______________ final musher arrived with the serum.
community, frostbitten
snowbound, plight
residents, treacherous
caretakers, eerie
