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THEME FOUR VOCABULARY WORDS

Lesson 18 “Mulberry Project”

compartment – An item that has compartments has separate sections for keeping things.

wispy- Something that is wispy is thin, lightweight, and easily broken.

vetoed- If someone has vetoed something, he or she has rejected it.

invasion – An invasion happens when many people or animals enter a place all at once.

phobia – To have a phobia is to be terrified of something without having a good reason for fear.

swayed – Something that swayed was moving back anf forth

 

Lesson 16 “The School Story”

tempted – If you are tempted to so something, you really want to do it, even though you know you should’nt.

insights – If you have insights, you notice or understand important things that other people may not.

essence – The essence of something is its most basic, important quality.

indication – An indication is a sign that something exists or might happen.

proposed – If a person proposed something, he or she suggested it.

instinct – An instinct is a natural, almost automatic way that people or animals react to things.

baffled – Smoething who is baffled by something cannot understand or explain it.

THEME ONE VOCABULARY WORDS

Rope Burn

humiliation

expectations

fringes

hesitating

sincere

coaxed

 

 

Line Drive

maven

mortified

reigned

conceited

designated

smirk

exhilarated

 

 

Chang and the Bamboo Flute

pried

desperately

sneered

indignantly

urgently

grudgingly

 

 

The Daring Nellie Bly: America’s Star Reporter

relented

faze

eccentric

infuriated

disheartened

impassable

crusaded

Vocabulary Powerpoint for LESSON 4

 

It Takes Talent

genial

prognostication

striken

dramatically

restrain

protest

feverishly

overcome

flop

spectacular

 

THEME TWO VOCABULARY WORDS

 The Night of San Juan

wistful

grateful

grim

raspy

swarmed

revelers

irresistible

 

Lesson 7 “When the Circus Came to Town

Vocabulary PowerPoint Presentation

fret

assured

nudged

outlandish

ruckus

proclaimed

Lesson 8 “When Washington Crossed the Delaware”

Vocabulary Powerpoint Presentation

crucial

crisis

maneuvered

perserverance

encountered

persuading

appealed

destiny

THEME 5 WORDS

 

Lesson 21: basking, sleek, vital, damage, analyzing, detect

Lesson 22: somberly, stammers, monopolize, deflated, enraptured, enterprising, cumbersome

Lesson 23: gouges, desolate, bustles, fervor, immaculate, assuage

Lesson 24: excursions, giddy, pinnacle, gleeful, panic, turbulent, precious

Lesson 25: loathe, bland, mentor, dilapidated, coordination, altruism, sensibility, advocacy, mistreated, compassionate