WHAT DOES IT MEAN?
If you walk wearily, you are walking ______.
In a tired or exhausted way.
“After walking for hours, Maria moved wearily toward the cabin. Her legs felt heavy.”
What does wearily mean?
Tiredly or with exhaustion.
A family makes the same special meal every Thanksgiving because they have done it for many generations. What is this called?
Tradition
A summary tells ______.
The most important ideas and events from a text in your own words.
A traditional cone-shaped home used by some Plains Indigenous peoples is called a ______.
Tipi
A person who is frail is ______.
Weak, delicate, or easily hurt.
“I saw how his gray hair straggled from under his big black hat."
What does straggled mean?
hung in messy strands
An author adds extra details, or descriptions to a simple story. What does it mean to embellish something?
to add extra details, dramatic flair, or exaggerated facts to a real-life event.
Information that the author directly states in a very detailed way is called ______ information.
Explicit
The Lakota Indians are ______.
An Indigenous people/Nation of the Great Plains.
Fatigue means ______.
Extreme tiredness or exhaustion.
“Grandmother was frail. She needed help carrying heavy objects and walked very slowly.”
What does frail mean?
Weak or physically delicate.
To grow, thin, messy locks hanging down without any shape, untidy way. Means...
When hair is straggled
Information that the author does not directly state and is vague but expects the reader to figure out is called ______ information.
Implicit
A medicine bag is traditionally a small pouch that may hold meaningful or sacred objects.
What does the word medicine mean in this cultural context?
The objects hold spiritual or sacred power —not simply modern medicine used to treat illness.
If someone acts sheepishly, they act ______.
Shyly, awkwardly, or embarrassed because they did something wrong.
“Jake looked sheepishly at his teacher after realizing he had forgotten his homework again.”
What does sheepishly mean?
Embarrassed or ashamed.
Someone who feels extreme tiredness after working all day is experiencing what?
Fatigue
Words and details around an unfamiliar word in reading passages that help you figure out its meaning are called ______.
Context clues
In U.S. history, a reservation is an area of land set aside for the use of an Indigenous tribe or nation.
What does Reservation mean?
An area of land designated for an Indigenous tribe or nation.
Something glamorous is ______.
Very attractive, exciting, stylish, or impressive.
“The dancer wore a glamorous dress covered in sparkling jewels. Everyone admired how beautiful she looked.”
What does glamorous mean?
Beautiful, stylish, or impressive.
Someone walks into a room wearing an expensive outfit, sparkling jewelry, and perfectly styled hair. Which word best describes their appearance?
Glamorous
When a reader uses text evidence and prior knowledge to figure out something the author does not directly state, the reader is making a ______.
Inference
A puppy runs around excitedly making a high-pitched sound: “Yip! Yip! Yip!” Which vocabulary word describes this kind of puppy in The Medicine Bag.
Yippy