Vocabulary Strategy FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE IN CONTEXT
Vocabulary Study CLASSIFYING WORDS 2
Vocabulary Study CLASSIFYING WORDS
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Be good.
What is advice June’s mother repeats
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Tuesday at swim class
What is
Where and when does June first meet the Other June?
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Excited about something and eager about it
What is enthusiastic
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The Other June thought of many ways to_____________ the narrator and cause her pain.
What is torment
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June was___________ to her mother and would do anything for her.
What is devoted
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Her pretty hair has gray in it.
What is June’s mother?
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She calls June names and pushes, hits, and pinches her.
What is How does the Other June treat June?
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The tornado was a ____________ of destruction demolishing many homes.
What is whirlwind
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word could be used to describe the appearance of someone or something
What is dazzling
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June’s mother had ______________eyes, greener than the grass in the meadow.
What is emerald
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...........a frightening and
tough girl
What is the Other June’s actions in swim class
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Why does June ask her mother whether they can move right away?
What is
June wants to stop going to swim class with the Other June.
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The children were as ___________as a group of playful puppies.
What is boisterous
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word related to action
What is rigid
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At night, June was motionless and____________ with fear at the thought of robbers breaking into her house.
What is rigid
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June refuse to tell her mother
about the bullying
What is June refuses to make her mother
worry.
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The Other June is now in her class and will be able to bully June every day.
What is Why does June dislike her new school at first?
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Playing chess with Olivia is like trying to _____________a computer.
What is outsmart
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Keely was as ____________________ about the applause as a movie star would have been.
What is nonchalant
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The shock of seeing the Other June sent her into a
What is daze
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June knows that the class supports her
when she stands up to the bully because
the students
What is laugh at the Other June
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When the teacher is out of the room, June faces the Other June and tells her “no more.” Other students laugh as the Other June steps back and sits down.
What is How does June solve her problem with the Other June?
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Language that expresses ideas in an imaginative ways. Often, one idea or thing is compared to another.
What is Figurative Language
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word that could apply to the way someone feels
What is devoted
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The new apartment building was a________________
white that shone brightly in the sun.