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Reading Comp Voc I
Reading Comp Vocabulary 5th Grade
| Word | definition |
|---|---|
| abandoned | deserted; no longer used |
| abdomen | belly |
| accessible | easily approached or entered |
| affectionately | with love |
| afloat | floating in or on water |
| aggressive | fierce or threatening |
| amateur | unpaid; not professional |
| analyze | to study something closely |
| antidote | something that stops a poison from working |
| anxious | worried; nervous |
| apprentice | someone who learns a craft by working with a skilled person |
| arc | a curved line |
| astounded | very surprised |
| bacteria | very tiny living things that exist all around and inside animals |
| balmy | pleasant and mild |
| brittle | easily snapped or broken |
| bunt | to bat a baseball lightly so that it goes only a short distance |
| campsite | a place to set up tents and equipment for camping |
| cantaloupe | a melon with a rough skin and sweet, juicy, orange fruit |
| castanets | a pair of wooden instruments held in the hand and clicked together |
| chambers | large rooms |
| comb | to search a place thoroughly |
| companion | someone that you spend time with; a friend |
| compete | try hard to outdo others at a task |
| complex | difficult to understand |
| complicate | make difficult |
| consistent | holding together; agreeing with each other |
| controversy | a lot of disagreement |
| crests | the top of waves; hills, or heads of birds |
| descent | movement from a higher place to a lower one |
| determination | the quality of not giving up |
| developed | treated photographic film with chemicals to make the pictures visible; grow and progress |
| digest | break down food so that it can be used by the body |
| disabled | having an injury, illness, or other rcondition that makes it difficult to do things |
| disturbances | events that upset the usual order of things |
| dormant | not active |
| doubtful | full of doubt; uncertain |
| eccentric | odd, strange |
| effective | working very well |
| elaborate | detailed and complicated |
| enthusiastic | full of interest; excited |
| era | a perid of time in history |
| evidence | information, objects, or facts that help prove something is true |
| exasperated | annoyed |
| excelled | did extremely well |
| expectantly | with expectation; waiting for something to happen |
| expression | the look on someones face |
| extraordinary | very unusual; remarkable |
| fatal | causing death |
| fragile | delicate; easily broken |
| gauze | a very thin cloth used as a bandage |
| generous | large; great |
| grueling | very demanding and tiring |
| gruesome | horrible |
| hamper | make it difficult to do something |
| hibernate | go into a sleeplike state for a period of time |
| hoax | a trick |
| horizon | line where the sky and ground seem to meet |
| hostile | unfriendly |
| ingredients | items that are needed to make something |
| inhabitants | people who live in a certain place |
| investigate | find out more about something |
| landscape | large area of land that you can view from one place |
| magnificent | very impressive and beautiful |
| massive | having great size or weight |
| meteorites | chunks of metal or stone that fall to Earth from outer space |
| microscopic | too small to be seen without a microscope |
| minimize | to make very small |
| miniscule | tiny |
| miraculous | wonderful; amazing |
| mobile | able to move |
| mouthwatering | delicious; appeaing to the taste |
| muscular | having strong muscles |
| native | a person, animal, or plant from a certain place |
| nudging | giving someone a small push |
| obstacle | something tha prevents one from doing something |
| ominous | scary, threatening |
| ovation | a round of applause and cheering |
| painstaking | careful and through |
| participate | to take part in an activity or event |
| penetrate | goes through something |
| petroglyphs | rock carvings |
| phenomenon | an unusual fact or event |
| pinnacle | the brightest point |
| progressively | steadily |
| protruded | stuck out |
| racket | a very loud noise |
| recovered | find something or get back something lost |
| reliable | can be depended on |
| remembrance | an object or activity that makes people remember something |
| reverberated | echoed loudly |
| satchel | bag carried over shoulder |
| scouring | cleaning by rubbing hard |
| secretive | having to do with vibrations from the earth |
| seismic | having to do with vibrations from the earth |
| slogan | a phrase used by a group to express its goal or belief |
| solar | from the sun |
| solitary | alone; single |
| spectacular | remarkable, amazing |
| spelunking | hobby of exploring caves |
| spewed | flew out with force |
| stalactites | thin pieces of rock that hand down from roof of cave |
| stalagmites | thin pieces of rock that stick up from floor of cave |
| standstill | a complete stop |
| sulfur | natural element that burms and produces a foul smell |
| symptoms | signs or results of disease |
| technique | way of doing something |
| territory | large area of land |
| treacherous | dangerous |
| troughs | narrow low spaces between waves |
| trudged | walked with effort |
| tsunami | powerful wave of water caused by underwater event |
| tundra | cold area in which there are no trees and ground is frozen |
| unique | one of a kind |
| variations | differences |
| venomous | poisonous |
| vital | necessary to life |
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