Book Summary For Slaughterhouse Five

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  • Common Core alignment to "Reading: Literature and Subject-related Content" is to 3 key phrases: "Particular Topic", "Context" and "Reading Literature". CCSS Alignment Strand Numbers for Specific Grades: Particular Topic: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers: 4.6. 5.6, 6.6, 7.6, 8.6, 9-10.6, 11-12.6 Context: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers: 2.4a, 3.4a, 4.4a, 5.4a, 6.4a, 7.4a, 8.4a, 9-10.4a, 11-12.4a Reading: Literature: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers: RL.2.4, RL.3.4, RL.4.4. RL.5.4, RL.6.4, RL.7.4, RL.8.4, RL.9-10.4, RL.11-12.4 Reading: Informational Text: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers: RI.2.4, RI.3.4, RI.4.4. RI.5.4, RI.6.4, RI.7.4, RI.8.4, RI.9-10.4, RI.11-12.4
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A 338 vocabulary word list for Slaughterhouse Five is arranged in alphabetical order:

  • Slaughterhouse Five Letters A-B – 49 words:
    abominable, absurd, accusation, acrimonious, acronym, addled, adjacent, afterglow, agony, amoretti, androgyny, anecdote, anesthetic, anodize, anthropologist, apologetic, ardent, aromatic, artifact, ascertain, authentic, avenge, avuncular, azure, baffle, balcony, balderdash, ballot, balmy, barometric, baroque, barricade, bawl, bayonet, beguile, bigotry, bipod, blather, bleakly, bleary, boast, boils, bonk, booze, boundless, bray, briskly, bucolic, burlap
  • Slaughterhouse Five Letters C-D – 52 words:
    calcimine, cannonade, capsize, carp, catacomb, catatonic, cauldron, chaplain, chuckle, cinders, clemency, climax, cockeyed, cockles, cocky, cohesion, coincidence, commiserate, communal, communism, connoisseur, conquest, consolation, constellation, contempt, convulsive, coo, cooped, cornice, corpse, covetously, crankcase, croon, croquet, cross-hatching, crucifix, custard, cyanide, dame, decrepit, delouse, delusions, despise, dialogue, diffident, dignity, dilated, dimension, dinky, dismantle, dollop, dragger
  • Slaughterhouse Five Letters E-G – 45 words:
    eaves, echolalia, enchanted, envy, epitaph, ersatz, excrement, execution, extermination, extrapolate, exult, fathom, faun, feeble, feign, ferocious, festoon, fictitious, fidelity, fizz, flibbertigibbet, florid, fragment, fray, frisk, frowsy, fraternal, frumpish, furlough, gallant, gallows, gangrene, gaunt, geodesic, ghetto, gibberish, glamorous, glee, Golgotha, golliwogs, grim, groggily, grotesque, gruesome, guzzle
  • Slaughterhouse Five Letters H-I – 31 words:
    habitat, hacking, hallucination, halo, hankering, harlequin, hasps, hobo, hoist, hue, humiliate, humility, hurtle, illusion, impassioned, imperishable, importune, impresario, improvise, incendiary, incident, incinerate, incompetent, indiscriminately, infinitesimal, infinity, insane, insinuate, insteps, intricate, irony
  • Slaughterhouse Five Letters L-M – 38 words:
    lark, latrine, lattice, lectern, leer, lethal, lethargically, limerick, limousine, loot, lousy, ludicrous, lugubrious, luminous, lusty, lyrical, madrigal, magnanimity, malt, mangle, marathon, marmalade, massacre, meager, median, medieval, melodious, messiah, microfilm, mimeograph, miseries, monk, monogram, muff, musculature, musket, mustard gas, myriad
  • Slaughterhouse Five Letters N-Q – 34 words:
    nacreous, nurture, nymph, oblige, obliterate, obscene, opalescent, owlishly, pageantry, palpable, papyrus, paranoid, parapet, Parthenon, patina, patronize, peculiar, peevish, perforate, persuade, piety, pillar, plague, plume, pneumatic, pneumonia, portholes, posture, precedent, preposterous, punitive, pylon, quarrelsome, quatrain
  • Slaughterhouse Five Letters R-S – 57 words:
    rabble-rouser, rabies, racket, radium, ramshackle, rapt, ravenous, rebound, rebuke, recuperate, reel, refractive, refugees, rendition, repercussion, repulsive, resonant, ridiculous, rodomontade, rogue, rowel, ruddy, rumpus, savage, scabbard, scrawny, senile, serene, sheath, shrubbery, siege, silhouette, sinuous, smithereens, sneer, snoot, snooze, snug, spastic, Spanish thumbscrew, soliloquize, sordid, stencil, stereophonic, steward, stimulant, strenuous, stupor, substitute, succumb, suffragette, swaddle, swagger, swarm, swastika
  • Slaughterhouse Five Letters T-Z – 32 words:
    tarpaper, tawdry, telepathic, tinsel, titillate, toboggan, toga, tootle, trafficker, translucent, travesty, treacherous, tremulously, twitch, unambiguous, unmitigated, vague, vat, Venetian, ventilator, vertigo, vice, vile, villain, virtue, voluptuous, vow, waif, whimper, wooed, yacht, yodel

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