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ELA U5 VOCAB
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| struggling | trying to do with difficulty |
| impairments | injury; damage |
| frustrated | prevented from accomplishing |
| catapulted | launched forward with machine like force |
| lurched | staggered; moved unsteady |
| flung | threw with great force |
| disobeying | fail to obey |
| concerned | worried, troubled, anxious |
| independence | the state or fact of being independent |
| retirement | the action or fact of leaving one's job and ceasing to work |
| prodigy | a person, especially young one, endowed with exceptional qualities or abilities |
| camaraderie | mutual trust and friendship among people who spend a lot of time together |
| fellowship | friendly association, especially with people who share one's interest |
| familial | relating to or occurring in a family or its members |
| ritual | a religious or solemn ceremony consisting of a series of actions performed according to a prescribed order |
| privilege | a special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to a particular person or group |
| suffix ment- | an action or resulting state |
| personification | gives human characteristics to an inanimate object, animal, or idea |
| simile | compares two things that are not alike using like or as |
| metaphor | compares two things that are not alike without using like or as |
| hyperbole | an exaggeration to drive in a point |
| idiom | are phrases that are not meant to be taken literally but that have a widely understood meaning in a given language or culture |
| alliteration | when the same sound or letters appear at the beginning of words in a sentence/phrase |