1. Read 180 – “Combat Zone”
Unit Three Vocabulary

2. Essential Question
What vocabulary is needed for unit three of Read 180?

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4. involved
committed or engaged

5. supported
to bear or hold up

6. opposed
to act against

7. service
the act of helpful activity

8. heroes
A man or woman of distinguished courage or ability, admired for brave deeds and noble qualities

9. criticized
to find faults

10. landmark
something used to mark the boundary of  land

11. Monument
statue in memory of a person

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13. Gradual
happening slowly

14. Gradually
slowly, over a long period of time

15. real
true; not imagined

16. reality
truth; what is happening for real

17. hesitate
to pause because you are not sure

18. hesitation
a pause because you are not sure

19. complicated
hard to understand or deal with

20. complication
a situation that makes something harder

21. Read 180
Unit 3

22. ambush
to attack from a place of hiding

23. gradually
slowly but steadily

24. hesitate
to pause

25. peril
danger

26. difficult to understand or deal with
complicated
difficult to understand or deal with

27. “Ambush”
Vocabulary
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28. site
a place

29. what is happening for real
reality
what is happening for real

30. certainly
without any doubt

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32. inscribe
to cut or carve words or letters into something

33. inscription
a piece of writing cut into stone or written in the front of a book

34. tragedy
a very sad event

35. tragic
very sad

36. “The Names”
Vocabulary
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37. to cut or carve words or letters on something
inscribe
to cut or carve words or letters on something

38. to look hard at something that is difficult to see
peer
to look hard at something that is difficult to see