"Is Traffic Jam Delectable?"

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Here are all the word lists to support the reading of Grade 8 Unit 4's texts from SpringBoard's Common Core ELA series: Made You Laugh, Brothers, Pet Peeves, Underfunded Schools Forced to Cut, The Open Window, A Day's Work, They Have Yarns, Mooses, Is Traffic Jam Delectable?, The Power of Pets, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Fear Busters
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  1. delectable
    extremely pleasing to the sense of taste
    Is traffic jam delectable
  2. racket
    a loud and disturbing noise
    does tree bark make a racket
  3. clamor
    a loud, harsh, or strident noise
    does the clamor rattle snakes?
  4. scale
    reach the highest point of
    Can salmon scale a mountain
  5. apricot
    a yellow to rosy-colored fruit resembling a small peach
    do carpets nap in flower beds
    or on an apricot?
  6. tie
    a cross brace that supports the rails on a railway track
    Around my handsome bottleneck,
    I wear a railroad tie
  7. chest
    the part of the human torso between the neck and the diaphragm or the corresponding part in other vertebrates
    my treasure chest puffs up a bit
  8. debonair
    having a sophisticated charm
    then put a pair of brake shoes on
    and dance on debonair.
  9. dip
    a brief swim in water
    I dive into a car pool,
    where I take an onion dip
  10. penmanship
    beautiful handwriting
    then stand aboard the tape deck
    and sail my penmanship.
  11. bank
    sloping land, especially the slope beside a body of water
    I put my dimes in riverbanks
    and take a quarterback
Created on Tue Sep 15 22:57:19 EDT 2015 (updated Wed Sep 16 02:23:02 EDT 2015)

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