Raymond's Run

Julie D. (United States of America)
Raymond's Run vocabulary list
http://www.syracusecityschools.com/tfiles/folder836/raymond%27s%20run%20text.pdf
9 words 52 learners

Learn words with Flashcards and other activities

Definition First
Print Flashcards

Other learning activities

Answer a few questions about each word. Use this to prep for your next quiz! Compete with other teams in real time to see who answers the most questions correctly! Test your spelling acumen. Read the definition, listen to the word and try spelling it!

Teaching tools

Create and assign quizzes to your students to test their vocabulary. Assign learning activities including Practice, Vocabulary Jams and Spelling Bees to your students, and monitor their progress in real-time.

Full list of words from this list:

words only definitions & notes
  1. signify
    denote or connote
    “I don’t think you’re going to win this time ,” says Rosie, trying to signify with her hands on her hips all salty, completely forgetting that I have whupped her behind many times for less salt than that.
  2. prefer
    like better; value more highly
    I’m ready to fight, cause like I said I don’t feature a whole lot of chit-chat, I much prefer to just knock you down right from the jump and save everybody a lotta precious time.
  3. hustle
    move or cause to move energetically or busily
    And I don’t have to earn my pocket m oney by hustling; George runs errands for the big boys and sells Christmas cards.
  4. periscope
    an instrument providing a view of an obstructed field
    He looks around the park for Gretchen like a periscope in a submarine movie.
  5. static
    not in physical motion
    Raymond is hollering from the swings cause he knows I’m about to do my thing cause the man on the loudspeaker has just announced the fifty-yard dash, although he might just as well be giving a recipe for angel food cake cause you can har dly make out what he’s sayin for the static.
  6. rowdy
    disturbing the public peace; loud and rough
    The parkees unfolding chairs and chasing the rowdy kids from Lenox as if they had no right to be there.
  7. slosh
    spill or splash copiously or clumsily
    And sometimes after a ra in he likes to step down off his tightrope right into the gutter and slosh around getti ng his shoes and cuffs wet.
  8. uptight
    in a very tense state
    I’ll high-prance down 34t h Street like a rodeo pony to keep my knees strong even if it does get my mother uptight so that she walks ahead like she’s not with me, don’t know me, is a ll by herself on a shopping trip, and I am somebody else’s crazy child.
  9. glockenspiel
    a percussion instrument consisting of a set of metal bars
    Most of the kids in my class are carrying bass drums and glockenspiels and flutes.
Created on Tue Dec 09 15:17:33 EST 2014

Sign up now (it’s free!)

Whether you’re a teacher or a learner, Vocabulary.com can put you or your class on the path to systematic vocabulary improvement.