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Vocabulary
Vocabulary Part 2
Onward
Onward Part 2
This and That
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a vast, open area
What is expanse?
100
guessed by reasoning or logic. He ______ the answer was A because B and C were silly responses.
What is deduced
100

What is the article mostly about?

What is the first Americans to reach the North Pole.

100

What are pages 381 and 382 mostly about?

What is the dangers the expedition encountered as they marched north.

100

What is the main idea of the story?

What is Matthew Henson and Commander Peary tried to be the first people to the North Pole

200
gave up something desired for something else He ________ playing video games to go to the basketball game.
What is sacrificed?
200
equal, the same Two plus two is _______ to four.
What is equivalent?
200

To organize the article and develop the main idea, the author?

What is describes events in the order they happened.

200

Based on the description of the trip, what is most likely the reason that the party had to use more than one person to break up the trail?

What is the trail breakers become exhausted and need rest.

200

What does connotation mean?

What is the feelings we associate with a word when we hear it

300
Extremely cold. The weather outside is ______.
What is frigid?
300
proven true, confirmed. It has been ________ that you have a test tomorrow.
What is affirmed?
300

The author calls the two-week to Cape Sheridan an ice-busting, gut wrenching voyage. The connotation of this description is that the voyage was

What is extremely difficult.

300

On April 5 Peary checked the position of the sun with his sextant. What is the meaning of the word sextant?

What is an instrument that determines location?

300

What does denotation mean?

What is the dictionary meaning of the word

400
people who take part We are ________ in the game.
What is participants.
400
to make ready and prepare. The teacher needs to ______ herself to plan her lesson.
What is prime?
400

In February 1909 the entire party prepared to march to the North Pole. What is the connotation of the word march?

What is an organized advance towards a goal.

400

From the caption on page 388, the reader can conclude that the Inuit

What is were not impressed with the North Pole.

400

What is the difference between main idea and theme?

What is what the story is mostly about and the lesson in the story

500
tough, long-lasting The Rubbermaid dish is _______.
What is durable
500
the end, result, or highest point. Getting an A in Reading is the _______ of hard work.
What is culmination?
500

From the photographs on pages 380-381, the reader can tell that a sledge

What is cannot be moved uphill.

500

What did Henson, Egingwah, and Seegloo do to ensure they had actually reached the North Pole? 

What is drove the sledges in a large rectangle around the campsite

500

Why did Peary bring the flags he did to the North Pole?

What is because they were special to him