Name: _______________________________ Advisory: _________________: Date: ___/___/___ 7 th Grade Vocabulary Dictionary # 21 Word: frantic Part of Speech: adj Charge: Definition: Frantic describes someone who is acting in a panicked, worried, disordered, rushed way. In context: Copy the sentence with “frantic” on page 16 (Words chapter) in The Color of My Words : _____________________________________________________________________ _____________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________ 1) What might cause you to act frantically in the morning before school? _____________________________________________________________________ _____________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________
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4) Which example describes the word “survey” better?
Sentence 1: A man peers out of his second-floor window and looks over the neighborhood.Sentence 2: A man goes to his second-floor bedroom and then lies on his bed.
Sentence _____ describes “survey” better because _______________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________5) How is a “surveying” something different from just “looking at” or “seeing” something?
4) Which example describes the word “inquire” better? Why?
Sentence 1: A student understood the directions for the homework assignment.Sentence 2: A student asked her teacher a question about the homework assignment.
Sentence _____ describes “inquire better because _______________________________________
3) Read and paraphrase the sentence with “venture” (page 26, The Gri Gri Tree, The Color of My Words).
“Not even Guario understood, although he tried. He asked me once what I did up there [in the Gri Gri Tree]. That was more than anyone else had ventured to inquire.”
To meander means to move slowly with a lot of bends or curves, rather than going in a straight line. It also means to wander without a definite direction or goal (ex: She meandered through the woods).
1) Connections (Does this word remind you of another book, movie or part of your life?)
3) Imagine you are meandering your way down a crowded sidewalk and a collection of tourists are blocking your path, taking pictures. Describe how you meander through the crowd:
3) My brother was so tired from swimming that he sprawled out on the blanket and let no room for anyone else. In detail, describe how your brother is sprawled out on the blanket:
4) Sprawl, the noun, describes a large area of buildings that are spread out in an unattractive way. For example, we drove through miles of urban sprawl before we finally got out into the countryside.
How is the phrase “urban sprawl” related to the verb “sprawl” (to lay or sat with your body stretched out in a careless manner)?
1) Connections (What does this word remind you of?)_______________________________________
2) Draw a picture of the sentence from middle of page 43, The Color of My Words: “For two weeks our humpback whale jumped and frolicked about in the Sosúa Bay until finally heading east to Samaná to join the other three thousand humpbacks that go there every winter.”
3) Which example describes the word “frolick” better? Why?Sentence 1: The children laughed as they played tag on the field.Sentence 2: The children played a game of baseball on the field.
Sentence _____ describes “frolick” better because _______________________________________