Vocabulary activity for Chapter 6 of The Indian School by Gloria Whelan!
Choose which word best fits each sentence. When you have answered all of the questions, click the "Check Answer" button. A box will pop-up with your score. Do not close until your score is printed or reviewed by your teacher.
"Aunt Emma looked like an ________ chair that had lost its stuffing."
specked
blurted
upholstered
seesawed
"My uncle ________ . 'You may lose one of the snowshoes in the woods. How would you get back? Yet these children must have more to eat.'"
crises
morseled
persuaded
seesawed
"There must have been something in the ________ of my voice."
urgency
persuade
blurt
awry
"But when I ________ out my story to her, Raven shook her head."
blurted
upholstered
morseled
crises
"We followed him with our eyes until he was no more than a ________ against the white snow."
seesaw
crisis
speck
morsel
"Aunt Emma found tasty ________ for him and shared his care with Raven."
specks
upholsters
urgencies
morsels
My voice ________ her to come with me.
seesawed
morseled
persuaded
awried
"'It is merely chicken pox that has gone ________ .'"
persuade
urgency
crisis
awry
"'You are right. The ________ is passed. I believe the boy will recover."