Of Mice and Men vocabulary Directions
Vocabulary will be weekly and tested when you take the chapter assessment (test).
Directions for vocabulary lists (you may do this on lined paper, a notebook or flashcards):
1. Read all the words and the example sentences.
2.Write the word, definition and choose one other task:
a. Draw an illustration, caption if needed.
b. Write a sentence using the word in context.
c. Find the synonym and antonym of the word and write a sentence using one.
d. Find the Spanish cognate and write a sentence in Spanish.
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Vocabulary will be weekly and tested when you take the chapter assessment (test).
Directions for vocabulary lists (you may do this on lined paper, a notebook or flashcards):
1. Read all the words and the example sentences.
2.Write the word, definition and choose one other task:
a. Draw an illustration, caption if needed.
b. Write a sentence using the word in context.
c. Find the synonym and antonym of the word and write a sentence using one.
d. Find the Spanish cognate and write a sentence in Spanish.
Chapter 1
- mottled: marked with colored spots
- recumbent: lying down
- morosely: very serious, unhappy, and quiet
- junctures: an important point in a process or activity; a place where things join
- droned: to make a continuous low humming sound
- lumbered: to move in a slow or awkward way
- brusquely: talking or behaving in a very direct, brief, and unfriendly way
- pantomime: a way of expressing information or telling a story without words by using body movements and facial expressions
- imperiously: attitude of someone who gives orders and expects other people to obey them
- anguished: extreme suffering, grief, or pain
- yammered: to talk in an annoying way usually for a long time
Chapter 2
- occupant: one that occupies a position or place
- splotch: an irregularly shaped spot or discolored area
- skeptically: marked by or given to doubt
- liniment: a medicinal fluid rubbed into the skin to soothe pain or relieve stiffness
- cesspool: a covered hole or pit for receiving drainage or sewage, as from a house
- grizzled: having fur or hair streaked or tipped with gray
- mollified: calmed in intensity, temper or feeling
- pugnacious: disposed to fight, inclined to fighting
- gingerly: with great care or delicacy
- ominously: of or pertaining to an omen
- slough: to discard as undesirable or unfavorable, get rid of
- derogatory: disparaging or belittling
- plaintively: expressive or sorrow or melancholy
- mourned: made a low, indistinct, mournful sound
- contorted: twisted or strained out of shape
- apprehensive: fearful or uneasy anticipation of the future; dread
- disengage: to release from something that holds fast, holds, or entangles
- gravity: grave consequence; seriousness or importance
- profound: penetrating beyond what is superficial or obvious
- complacently: self-satisfied and unconcerned
Chapter 3
- derision: ridicule
- receptive: ready or willing to receive favorably
- scuttled: to quickly leave with shame or to scoot across.
- rheumatism: any of several pathological conditions of the muscles, tendons, joints, bones, or nerves, characterized by discomfort or disability
- quiver: to shake with a slight, rapid, tremulous movement
- deliberate: done with or marked by full consciousness of the nature and effects
- entranced: put into a trance
- reprehensible: deserving rebuke or censure
- bemused: caused to be engrossed in thought
- spectacles: a pair of eyeglasses
Chapter 4
- persuasive: tending or having the power to persuade
- scornful: to feel contempt or disdain toward a person or object considered despicable or unworthy
- dignity: the quality or state of being worthy of esteem or respect
Chapter 5
- crouched: pressed the entire body close to the ground with the limbs bent
- sorrow: mental suffering or pain caused by injury, loss, or despair
- viciously: characterized by violent or destructive behavior
- sniveled: sniffled
- gradually: advancing or progressing by regular or continuous degrees
Chapter 6
- scudded: to run or skim along swiftly and easily