Question

name: date: directions: reread each excerpt from chapter 6 of summer of the mariposas. using strategies for determining unfamiliar vocabulary, answer the questions below. 1. part a \she turned away and disappeared into the darkness, leaving me alone with her cryptic words. but i didnt have time to decipher their meaning.\ (85) use a print or online dictionary. below, copy the meaning of the word cryptic and the word decipher as they are used in this sentence. (l8.4c, l8.4d) cryptic: decipher: part b using these definitions, rewrite the two sentences from part a in your own words.

Explanation:

• For "cryptic": In the context of the sentence, "cryptic" means having a meaning that is mysterious or not easily understood. It describes the words as being hard to figure out.
• For "decipher": In this sentence, "decipher" means to figure out or interpret the meaning of something (in this case, the cryptic words).
• For rewriting the sentences (Part B example):
• Original: "She turned away and disappeared into the darkness, leaving me alone with her cryptic words. But I didn't have time to decipher their meaning."
• Rewritten (example): "She walked off and vanished into the dark, leaving me by myself with her puzzling words. However, I didn't have the time to figure out what they meant."

Answer:

• cryptic: Mysterious; having a meaning that is not easily understood.
• decipher: To figure out; to interpret the meaning of.
• Part B (example rewrite): "She walked off and vanished into the dark, leaving me by myself with her puzzling words. However, I didn't have the time to figure out what they meant."