"A Sound of Thunder"
Vocabulary

1. "Crushing certain plants could add up ___________(ly). A little, tiny error here would multiply in sixty million years, all out of proportion."
2. "The government doesn’t like us here. We have to pay big ___________ to keep our business."
3. The green carpet of grass and moss was _____________ and soft.
4. "It ran with a gliding ballet step, far too _____________ and balanced for its ten tons."
5. "Maybe Time can’t be changed by us. Or maybe it can be changed only in __________, not so noticeable ways."
6. The machine glowed. It had an __________ that flickered brightly; orange, blue, and silver.
7. He is not an _________ member of the team; we need his help desperately.
8. We tried to ___________ our arrival times, so we would get there together.
9. The gardener _________(ed) a new limb onto the ailing tree.
10. The dancer was ___________ on the edge of the stage.
11. Since there were 1000 points possible in the quarter, one or two would be an _____________ amount.
12. The display of colored lights in the sky that happens near the North Pole is called the _________ borealis. It is more commonly known as the ________ _________. (EC)
13. A good quality to have is __________-- the ability to bounce back when things go wrong.
14. When we moved, we got rid of everything that we considered _________.

graft, resilient, resilience, aurora, expendable, poised, subtle, infinitesimal, correlate