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These bingo cards feature 35 vocabulary words from Colson Whitehead's The Nickel Boys, designed for high school students in Grades 9–12. The word list includes challenging terms like inscrutable, licentious, avuncular, resiliency, and transgression that appear throughout the novel. Use these cards for vocabulary review during or after reading, test preparation, or edit them as a template for vocabulary study of other texts.

Subject:
English / Language Arts
Topic:
Vocabulary
Grade Level:
9th – 12th Grades
Updated January 2024

Word List

  • earmark
  • inscrutable
  • haphazard
  • crochety
  • apprise
  • licentious
  • threadbare
  • gamely
  • impart
  • bravado
  • dapper
  • fare
  • mulish
  • pompadour
  • genteel
  • inkling
  • misgiving
  • convey
  • tableau
  • shiftless
  • insolent
  • livid
  • inalieable
  • transgression
  • epithet
  • wily
  • wry
  • inflection
  • yoke
  • marquee
  • resiliency
  • bashful
  • facet
  • avuncular
  • rivet

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