Vocab: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
approximation
a guess or estimate
What is an adverb?
a word or phrase that modifies or qualifies an adjective, verb, or other adverb or a word group, expressing a relation of place, time, circumstance, manner, cause, degree, etc. (e.g., gently, quite, then, there ).
This is the only fruit that bears it's seeds on the outside.
strawberry's
Mrs. Shears’s large black poodle. Largely docile until an operation left him erratic and occasionally violent, he is found dead in the opening scene of the novel with a pitchfork through his side.
Wellington
What county is Auburn located in?
Worcester County
circumspect
watchful and discreet; cautious; prudent
"Mary finally finished her homework that she had been forgetting to do."
What is the adverb ?
Finally
This animal lives in Northern parts of North America and is the largest member of the deer family.
Moose
A neighbor of the Boones’s. Christopher remembers that she would often visit to cook meals and play scrabble in the wake of his mother’s death. The murder of her dog, Wellington, provides the major dramatic impetus for the novel.
Mrs. Shears (Eileen Shears)
how many thousand people live in auburn as of 2010?
16,000
hypothetical
assumed to exist by hypothesis; supposed; conjectural
What is the adverb in this sentence?
Some stories in my textbook are extremely exciting from start to finish
extremely
This human body part stays the same size from birth, however, our nose and ears never stop growing.
eyes
What is Christopher's last name?
Boone
What is the high schools address?
99 Auburn Street, Auburn, MA
subtly
done in a faint or delicate way; not obviously
Which word could NOT be an adverb: soon, well, probably, tomorrow, costly
costly
This is the only U.S. state that grows coffee.
Hawaii
Christopher’s primary teacher at school. An even-handed mentor, she works to expand Christopher’s horizons socially as well as academically.
Siobhan
how many hundred students go to auburn high school?
700+
digression
a passage or selection that deviates from the central theme in speech or writing
What's the difference between adverbs and adjectives?
Adjectives describe nouns, while adverbs describe verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs. Take the sentence, "She is careful." The adjective careful is describing the noun she. But if you said, "She walks carefully," the adverb carefully is describing the verb walk.
What is the fastest land animal?
cheetah
Why did Christopher's mother actually leave their home?
She moved away because her and Christopher's dad decided to no longer be together
The town was officially incorporated on April 10, of what year?
1778