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Date: _________
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The Great Chicago Fire, Excerpts from Jim Murphy’s The Great Fire (1995)
VOCABULARY
DIRECTIONS: These are our vocabulary words for the next week. You are required
to study them on a daily basis. You will be asked to create flashcards. You may do this on
index cards (vocabulary word on one side and definition on the other side) or you may create
them on your phone using the Quizlet application or any other flash card application.
We will take a quiz on these words five at a time. Each quiz we take will include an
additional five words.
Quiz 1 = Vocabulary words 1-5
Quiz 2 = Vocabulary words 1-10
Quiz 3 = Vocabulary words 1-15
Quiz 4 = Vocabulary words 1-18
1. STIFLING (ADJECTIVE) – SUFFOCATING OR OPPRESSIVELY
CLOSE
2. AMBLE (VERB) - TO GO AT A SLOW, EASY PACE; STROLL;
SAUNTER
3. GUSTING (VERB) – SUDDEN, STRONG BLAST OF WIND; BLOWING
POWERFULLY
4. SCUTTLED (VERB) – A SHORT, SUDDEN RUN
5. FIDDLE (ADJECTIVE) – IN THE TEXT, “FIDDLE MUSIC” MEANS
CREATIVE MUSIC
6. FIERCELY (ADVERB) - MENACINGLY WILD, SAVAGE, OR HOSTILE
7. EMBERS (NOUN) - A SMALL LIVE PIECE OF COAL, WOOD, ETC., AS
IN A DYING FIRE.
8. SINGED (VERB) - TO BURN THE ENDS OF SOMETHING; SCORCH
9. ENGULFED (VERB) – TO PLUNGE OR IMMERSE COMPLETELY;
ENVELOP, BURY
10.
SMOLDER (VERB) - DENSE SMOKE RESULTING FROM SLOW
COMBUSTION; “A SMOLDERING FIRE”.
11.
ABRUPTLY (ADVERB) –QUICKLY OR SUDDENLY
12.
BOASTED (VERB) - TO SPEAK WITH PRIDE
13.
ORNATELY (ADVERB) – ELABORATE OR EMBELLISHED;
FLASHY
14.
FLAMMABLE (NOUN) – EASILY SET ON FIRE
15.
INTERSPERSED (VERB) - TO SCATTER HERE AND THERE OR
PLACE IN RANDOM AREAS.
16.
STATELY (ADJECTIVE) ELEGANT OR MAJESTIC
17.
COMBUSTIBLE (ADJECTIVE) CAPABLE OF CATCHING FIRE
18.
UNRELENTING (ADJECTIVE) NOT YIELDING, NOT EASILY
GIVEN IN