Vocabulary
Quiz for The Cay
*refinery |
*lurched |
*debris |
*blackout |
*catchment |
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*navigation |
*conniving |
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*schooner |
*treacherous |
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*massive |
*flayed |
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Print off the worksheet
and fill in the blanks. Then paste the sheet in your book.
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The rain sounded
like bullets hitting on the dried palm frond roof. We ran out into it,
shouting and letting the fresh water hit our bodies. It was cool and
felt good. Timothy yelled that his __________________ was working and
had made a large trough that would catch the rain.
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Timothy had been cut
to ribbons by the wind, which drove the rain and tiny grains of sand
before it. It had ____________ his back and legs until there were very
few places that weren't cut.
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"B'gettin' his
own self a lizzard, mebbe, mebbe," he answered, but there was
something ___________ in his voice.
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Timothy did not
answer, but turned back, I guess, to watch the sea again. I could
imagine those bloodshot eyes, set in that _____________(large),
scarred black face, sweeping over the sea.
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Feeling it
everywhere under my feet, I knew that the cay was littered with
___________. I started cleaning the camp area, or what was left of it.
I piled all the palm fronds, frayed by the wind, in one place; sticks
of wet driftwood in another.
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His feet touched the
sand. In another few minutes, the raft ________________ and I knew it
had grounded.
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We finished dinner
just as it was getting dark, and my father went outside to look at our
house. He wanted to see if the _______________ curtains were working.
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When the lifeboat
had been swung out, the captain came down from the bridge. He was a
small, wiry white-haired man and was acting the way I'd been told
captains should act. He stood by the lifeboat in the fire's glow, very
alert, giving orders to the crew. He was carrying a brief case and a
____________instrument I knew to be a sextant. On the other side of
the ship, another lifeboat was being launched.
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He said the ______
would have to close down within a day, and that meant precious gas and
oil could not got to England, or to General Montgomery in the African
desert.
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But I knew that
lurking in the tide pools were the _______________ sea urchins.
Stepping on them invited a sharp spine in your foot, and Timothy had
already warned me that, "dey veree poison, deg b'gibbin' you
terrible pain."
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Timothy chewed
slowly on half a biscuit. "Today, young bahss, a ______________
(type of boat) will pass. I'd bet a jum on dat."
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