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G5 Reading
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Romp | Energetic playing |
| Strained | Working as hard as possible, either physically or mentally |
| Picturing | Forming a mental image of something |
| Wheeled | To have moved something using wheels |
| Shouldered | To have placed a weight on one's shoulders or to have accepted a burden or responsibility |
| Frantic | When someone is wild with excitement or worry |
| Lunging | Making a sudden forward movement |
| Checking | When you are limiting or controlling a person or thing |
| Stride | The rhythm of one's walking or length of one's steps |
| Bounding | Leaping at a fast pace |
| Conserving | Saving from harm or loss |
| Restore | Bring back into original existence, use, function, or position |
| Endangered | In danger of becoming extinct |
| Responsibility | An obligation or duty for which a person is held accountable |
| Attracted | Pulled toward |
| Regulate | To control or direct |
| Vegetation | All the plant life in a particular region |
| Adapted | Suited to the environment where the organism lives |
| Unique | One of a kind |
| Guardians | Person who cares for persons or property |
| Cost an arm and a leg | Very expensive |
| Shoulder Responsibility | take responsibility |
| Bark is worse than a bite | speak too much and does a little |
| In the dog house | in a serious problem |
| Speak in a foreign tongue | speak a foreign language |
| Don’t count your checking before they hatch | Make plans based on events that may or may not happen, or Wait for things to happen first. |
| Bone up | build up |
| Catch with honey than with vinegar | It is easier to get what you want by flattering people and being polite to them than by making demands |
| Remove | take something off/away |
| Proactive | taking action by causing change and not only reacting to change when it happens |
| Reaction | something you say, feel, or do because of something that has happened |
| Enrage | To make someone angry |
| Precaution | something that you do to stop bad things happening in the future |
| Entangle | involved with something or someone in a way that makes it difficult to escape |
| Prohibit | to say by law that you must not do something |
| Review | the study you do to learn about a subject or before a test |
| Preset | To set (an automatic control, for example) beforehand |
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