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Pushing Up the Sky
Unit 3 Week 2 Reading Street Third Grade
Term | Definition |
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narrator | a person who is telling a story |
antlers | bony, branching growths on the head of the male deer, elk, or moose |
imagined | made a picture of idea of something in your mind |
languages | human speech, spoken or written, of different groups or countries |
overhead | over the head; on high; above |
poked | pushed with force |
abundant | more than enough; very plentiful |
scarce | hard to find; not enough of |
elder | older person in a community |
existence | to be alive |
shrivel | too much sun, not enough water makes a plant not grow |
scorch | to burn something slightly |
irritable | annoyed, unhappy |
pierce | to make a hole in it with something |
torrent | powerful rush of water; a heavy downpour |
fertile | land that is good for growing |
prefix | word parts at the beginning of a base word that changes the meaning |
unhappy | not happy |
recall | to remember |
disappear | is not there |
unload | not load |
mistake | error |
misspell | to spell wrong |
dislike | to not like |
replace | to get another |
mislead | to lead faslely |
disagree | to not agree with |
rewrite | to write again |
unroll | to spread out |
unknown | not known |
dishonest | not honest or truthful |
react | to respond |
unfortunate | having bad luck |
discourage | to not encourage |
recycle | to use something again or for another purpose |
mispronounce | to say incorrectly |
character | a person or animal in a story |
setting | where and when a story takes place |
plot | includes the important events that happen at the beginning, middle, and end of a story |
syllables | how words are divided |
main verb | shows action in a sentence |
helping verb | shows the time of action |
compare | to show how two things are alike |
contrast | to show how two things are different |
un- | not |
re- | again |
mis- | bad, wrong |
dis- | opposite of |
am, is, are | present tense of a helping verb |
was, were, had, have, has | past tense of a helping verb |
will | future tense of a helping verb |