Among the Hidden Vocabulary
Chapters 19-21: Idioms/Expressions Fertility rate – Industrialized countries – Hydroponics – Rationing – Anglo – Germination – Cultivation – Cease and desist – Domesticity – Settled in for the long haul -
Chapters 19-21: Vocabulary Adjudication Annihilation Astronomical Betray Compromise Daunting Droughts Earnestness Famines Genocide germination
19-21 Vocabulary cont.. Grimace Industrialized Malnourished Notion Offended Ominous Pangs Preponderance Preserved Propaganda Render Resolutely revelations
19-21 Vocab. Cont.. Scam Seized Cultivation domesticity
Idioms and Expressions Chapters 1-4: Pursed her lips – Umpteenth - Chiseled faces – Hog boots – Sissified – Double-cross – Combines – Bush hog – Gravity wagons – Mudroom – You’re a trooper – Chapter 5-7 Offal – Reciprocity – Bread and butter – Feeder pigs – Geegaws -
Idioms/ Expressions cont.. Chapters 16-18 On an awfully short leash -
Chapter 16-18 Botching (71) Bribe (87) Clout (80) Congealed (73) Conscious (80) Flippantly (78) Incompetent (81) Infiltrator (71) Priorities (77) Sarcastic (85)
Chapters 12-15 Awe (57) Bribery (64) Competent (62) Harboring (61) Pristine (57) Sanctuary (55) Sporadically (51) Taboos (60) Telepathy (55) Theoretically (52)
Chapters 8-11 Apparatus (37) Chaos (36) Countered (37) Guffawed (47) Incredulously (46) Scoffed (39) Taunted (47) Teetering (38) Tentatively (37) Zeal (39)
Chapters 8-11 Apparatus – “Two teenaged boys lived there, and their deck overflowed with soccer balls, baseball bats, tennis rackets, basketballs, hockey sticks, and apparatus from games Luke could only guess at.” (37) -
apparatus I think apparatus means….
What’s behind the yellow box? On this one, the students may not have been exactly certain what was behind the yellow box, but they should have a pretty good idea that it’s some kind of equipment for a leisure activity like the other pictures shown. Make the point: Even knowing a little bit about the mystery word is better than not knowing anything about it at all.
Chapters 1-4 Beckoned (11) Beseechingly (20) Careened (13) Combines (17) Harrumphed (2) Hulking (10) Lofty (3) Resolutely (22) Savored (1) Shrugged (14) Skittish (5)