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Lesson 1-First Day Jitters
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| nervous | afraid |
| fumbled | dropped clumsily |
| chuckled | laughed quietly |
| nonsense | silly idea |
| trudged | walked slowly |
| tunneled | dug to make a deep hole |
| clammy | damp and sticky |
| weakly | without strength |
| character | people or animals in a story |
| setting | where and when a story takes place |
| plot | the plan of a story |
| fiction | a made up story |
| genre | the kind of story |
| prefix | word part added to the beginning of a root word |
| dis | prefix meaning not or opposite |
| un | prefix meaning not or opposite |
| non | prefix meaning not or opposite |