The Cay - Vocabulary

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Vocabulary Choices

1. massive 2. priority 3. schooner

4. cay 5. calypso 6. catchment

7. ebony 8. dialect 9. malaria

10. blackout 11. precise 12. hurricane

13. badgering 14. langosta 15. aimlessly

16. rancid 17. meekly 18. mutiny

Write the vocabulary word for each definition in the blank provided.

Remember that spelling counts!

1. a disease caused by parasites

2. black

3. music from the West Indies

4. a type of ship

5. tropical storm

6. without a goal or purpose

7. something that catches water

8. lacking spirit

9. huge

10. lobster

11. darkening the home

12. rotten; bad smell

13. first, important

14. small island

15. revolt, rebellion

16. special way of talking from an area

17. exact

18. to harrass or annoy

Your score is out of 18. From: http://205.126.22.50/reading/books/thecayvocab.html

1. massive	2. priority	3. schooner
4. cay	5. calypso	6. catchment
7. ebony	8. dialect	9. malaria
10. blackout	11. precise	12. hurricane
13. badgering	14. langosta	15. aimlessly
16. rancid	17. meekly	18. mutiny

1. a disease caused by parasites
2. black
3. music from the West Indies
4. a type of ship
5. tropical storm
6. without a goal or purpose
7. something that catches water
8. lacking spirit
9. huge
10. lobster
11. darkening the home
12. rotten; bad smell
13. first, important
14. small island
15. revolt, rebellion
16. special way of talking from an area
17. exact
18. to harrass or annoy