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 |