TMS "Suzy and Leah"

Michelle S. (United States of America)
Vocab and spelling words for "Suzy and Leah"
PLEASE READ NOTES FOR EACH WORD.
20 words 432 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. rickety
    inclined to shake as from weakness or defect
    A line of rickety wooden buildings just like in the army.
  2. refugee
    an exile who flees for safety
    How can anyone--even a refugee--live there?
  3. swarm
    move in large numbers
    When I held them up, all those kids just swarmed over to the fence, grabbing.
  4. pen
    an enclosure for confining livestock
    Even though we are still penned in.
    DEFINITION FROM TEXTBOOK: (VERB) locked up in a small enclosure
  5. porridge
    soft food made by boiling meal or legumes in water or milk
    Before the war we ate such lovely porridge with milk straight from our cows.
    Kind of like oatmeal, normally served warm with milk and sugar
  6. Yiddish
    a dialect of High German including some Hebrew and other words; spoken in Europe as a vernacular by many Jews; written in the Hebrew script
    But Ruth and Zipporah and the others, though they speak Yiddish and Russian and German, they have no English at all.
  7. Nazi
    a German member of Adolf Hitler's political party
    And after, when I was running from the Nazis, it was stale brown bread, if we could find any.
    During World War II, Nazi soldiers killed, enslaved, and did a lot of horrible things to people who were different (in looks and thinking) than them, mostly Jewish people were the targets of their cruelty.
    ONLY ABOUT 10% OF THE GERMAN POPULATION WERE A PART OF THE NAZI POLITICAL PARTY DURING WWII.
  8. stale
    lacking freshness, palatability, or showing deterioration
    And after, when I was running from the Nazis, it was stale brown bread, if we could find any.
    word often used to describe old, hard (but not moldy) bread
  9. cupboard
    a small room (or recess) or cabinet used for storage space
    And he was almost three days in that cupboard without food, without water, without words to comfort him.
    USE THE CABINET DEFINITION (where people store cups, plates, food)
  10. falsely
    in an insincerely false manner
    This way I do not have to see the girl with the yellow hair who smiles so falsely at me.
  11. growl
    utter or emit low dull rumbling sounds
    When she says it, it sounds all different, low and growly.
  12. grateful
    feeling or showing thankfulness
    She expects me to be grateful.
    SYNONYM: thankful
  13. permanent
    not capable of being reversed
    It's like she has a permanent frown and permanent frown lines between her eyes.
    DEFINITION FROM BOOK: lasting for all time
  14. kosher
    food that fulfills the requirements of Jewish dietary law
    Avi loves the food I bring home from school. What does he know? It is not even kosher.
  15. barbed wire
    strong wire with barbs at regular intervals used to prevent passage
    And a fence lots higher than my head. With barbed wire on top.
    normally seen at the top of prison fences
  16. handkerchief
    a square piece of cloth used for wiping the eyes or nose
    I tried to give her a handkerchief with a yellow flower on it.
  17. concentration camp
    a place where persecuted groups are forcibly confined
    She said the Nazis killed people, mothers and children as well as men. In places called concentration camps.
  18. appendix
    supplementary material collected at the back of a book
    She had to have her appendix out and nearly died.
    DEFINITION AS USED IN THE STORY: a small, finger-shaped pouch connected to your large intestine, in the lower right part of your belly (or abdomen). The appendix really has no purpose. So if a kid needs to have it removed, his or her body will work just fine after the operation. Some researchers think that many, many years ago, the appendix was once a useful part of the digestive system, but we don't need it anymore.

    When your appendix gets inflamed, or swells up, it's called appendicitis (say:
  19. apology
    an expression of regret at having caused trouble for someone
    And then, instead of making an apology, she did a strange thing.
  20. furious
    marked by extreme anger
    And the way she talked about me made me furious.
Created on Sat Oct 05 11:37:53 EDT 2013 (updated Sat Oct 05 14:22:17 EDT 2013)

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.