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"DMS" White Circle
"DMS" White Circle #2
| word | definition | sentences |
|---|---|---|
| perched | resting place up high | The bird was ______ up highon the tree limb. |
| mimicry | act of copying | His _______________ of my actions really made me mad. |
| dismally | gloomily,sadly, unhappily | I sat _____________ in my room all by myself because I was grounded. |
| genre | book type | The _____ of my book is fantasy. |
| antagonist | person that struggles with another (generally struggles with the main character) | Each time the main character tried to do his best the _______ in the story caused a problem for him. |
| bewildered | confused, puzzled | I was quite _______________ by a very hard math question that was on the test. |
| itinerant | worker that goes from one place to another in order to find work | Anvil's father was an ________ worker who went door to door and village to village trying to sell knickknacks. |
| truculently | to do something or say something in a brutal, cruel, mean way | She ______ played mean tricks on her younger sister. |
| extinction | to no longer exist | Dinosaurs have been in ____________ for many years. |
| prongs | pointed part of a fork, any pointed item or part | The _____________ on a fork are very sharp. |
| descended | to go down | We carefully ______________ down the mountain slope because the rain had made the path very slippery. |
| vexed | irritated | The mom was completely _____________ by the way her son kept picking on his sister. |
| inadvertently | no meaning to, by mistake, accidentally | We __________turned at the wrong corner and became completely lost. |
| wallowed | roll around | The pig ___________about in the muddy pigpen. |
| doggedly | persistent, not giving up, keep after something | The cat ___________ pursued the gecko that was running along the wall until it was caught. |