1. Among the Hidden
Vocabulary

2. Chapters 19-21: Idioms/Expressions
Fertility rate –
Industrialized countries –
Hydroponics –
Rationing –
Anglo –
Germination –
Cultivation –
Cease and desist –
Domesticity –
Settled in for the long haul -

3. Chapters 19-21: Vocabulary
Adjudication
Annihilation
Astronomical
Betray
Compromise
Daunting
Droughts
Earnestness
Famines
Genocide
germination

4. 19-21 Vocabulary cont.. Grimace Industrialized Malnourished Notion
Offended
Ominous
Pangs
Preponderance
Preserved
Propaganda
Render
Resolutely
revelations

5. 19-21 Vocab. Cont..
Scam
Seized
Cultivation
domesticity

6. 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 -

7. Idioms/ Expressions cont..
Chapters 16-18
On an awfully short leash -

8. Chapter 16-18 Botching (71) Bribe (87) Clout (80) Congealed (73)
Conscious (80)
Flippantly (78)
Incompetent (81)
Infiltrator (71)
Priorities (77)
Sarcastic (85)

9. Chapters 12-15 Awe (57) Bribery (64) Competent (62) Harboring (61)
Pristine (57)
Sanctuary (55)
Sporadically (51)
Taboos (60)
Telepathy (55)
Theoretically (52)

10. Chapters 8-11 Apparatus (37) Chaos (36) Countered (37) Guffawed (47)
Incredulously (46)
Scoffed (39)
Taunted (47)
Teetering (38)
Tentatively (37)
Zeal (39)

11. 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) -

12. apparatus
I think apparatus means….

13. 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.

14. 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)