Synonyms
Carry
Bear
Research shows that ___ suffered in childhood can affect people’s mental and emotional health as adults.
Trauma
Whole
Intact
The class struggled to hide their ___ when they found that their teacher had forgotten that today was a test day.
Exuberance
This person wrote the Things They Carried
Tim O' Brian
Non-military
Civilian
Gina and Jamie did not want a lot of ___ on their wedding day, so they chose to have a small courthouse wedding with a handful of their closest friends and family.
Pomp
Ceremony
Pomp
Salvatore’s ___ demeanor and refusal to look his parents in the eyes were the first clues that his driving test had not gone as planned.
Somber
This person was killed in the passage we read
Tom Lavender
Narrow
Contract
Herman’s one job during the summer was to make sure that his younger siblings were still ___ when his parents got home from work each night.
Intact
Fragment
Shard
Sometimes in war, ___ are injured or killed by fighting that happens near their homes.
Civilian
This is the school that Martha goes to.
Mount Sebastian College in New Jersey.
Tricky
Elusive
Manny arrived at my door with his arms full of packages, saying, “I come ___ gifts!”
Bearing
Serious
Somber
Warren tried to drive around the ___ of glass that littered the roadway, but it seemed there was no way to avoid getting a flat tire.
Shard
This is the candy the medic carried.
M and M's
Enthusiastic
Exuberant
People often use ___ when they write, taking up less space by combining two words like “should” and “not” to become “shouldn’t.”
Contraction
Injury
Trauma
Although thousands of people have looked for it over the years, Bigfoot has remained ___.
Elusive
In what month does the passage take place.
April