Vocabulary Charts: Assorted Words

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Ivan
This vocabulary chart lists various kinds of words and their meanings. A defining vocabulary is a list of words used by lexicographers to write dictionary definitions.

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4. a certain skill
specialty) or knowiedge
of something
* Her specialty is making What is your specialty?
homemade chocolates.
* The doctor's specialty is
working with cancer patients.

5. to fall
collapsed dasha
* When | grabbed the brick What would a cake look
from the tower, tal ike if it collapsed?
collapsed and fell to the
floor. "A cake would
look like
* After the mile run, the = fo if
students collapsed onto the
it collapsed."

6. . , _ it interrupts
disturbing} what you
are doing
° My sister was disturbing me Thumbs up/thumbs down:
while | tried to do my which of these things would
homework. be disturbing to you?
* Quiet sleeping baby
* Loud noises are disturbing * Someone chewing with their
the students who are taking mouth open
a test.
* Crickets outside your window
at night

7. * | chased after the flies
squashing as many as | could
with my giant fly swatter.
* The students were squashing
their clay into shapes for
math class.
to crush
or flatten
Thumbs up/thumbs down:
which of these items are
capable of squashing?
* Cookie ° Bread
Dough Spider
* Wood
* Magazine

8. to move
or change
+ We worked as a team and | Which of these words are
shifted all the pieces of the a synonym for shifted?
puzzle together to fit
perfectly. * change —* budged
* stuck * moved
* The boys teeth shifted
because he did not wear his
* stubborn * unchanged

9. having very
little sensation
or feeling
° After getting a cavity filled What would be hard to do
at the dentist my whole face | jf your hands were numb?
was numb.
"It would be hard
+ My fingers and toes were to
numb after playing in the if my hands were
snow all morning. numb."

10. to walk
* Karla staggered down the | Which words have similar
street after she fell and
cut her knee.
meanings to staggered?
* stumbled — * swayed
* The student's staggered * marched * wobbled
down the hall to class ran * dashed
because they had heavy
backpacks on.

11. to 7 ily
to do something
struggled) °°. isc
difficulty doing it
* Randy struggled to hit What words are synonyms
the tennis ball because he | for the word struggled?
was so tired. © conflict
* calm
© effort
*° success
* The students struggled to
understand adding

12.


to move
from side to

dashboard in the car.
13. * The principal's Thumbs up/thumbs down:
What activities would you be
annoyed if they were interrupted?
announcement interrupted
the students taking their
tost * video games
* homework
* The commercial interrupted = dewer
the movie that was playing
on the television. sport game