Students will spell words and have a matching definition test on Friday.
Vocabulary & Spelling Week 4--5/1-5/5
Vocabulary & Spelling Week 5--5/8-5/12
Vocabulary & Spelling Week 6--5/15-5/19
Vocabulary & Spelling Week 4--5/1-5/5
- bowler-a domed shaped hat
- slumber-to sleep
- gourmet-person who likes fine food and is a good judge of it
- canopied-covered by a cloth or covering fastened as a roof above throne, bed, or person
- furrows-long groove made in the ground by a plow
- mutton-flesh of a sheep
- animated-vigorous, lively
- lured-attracted or lead by offering something that seems pleasant
- liable-obliged by law to pay=responsible
- opulence-wealthy, rich
- pavilion-large tents, often with pointed top
- sinister-wicked, evil, and dishonest
- cordially-deeply felt, sincerity
- sumptuous-costing a great deal-lavish
- inspiring-to cause an urge to do something
Vocabulary & Spelling Week 5--5/8-5/12
- prudish-too modest
- aeronautics-science of making and flying aircraft
- valet-servant to assist one in dressing
- resume-to begin again
- conveyance-anything used for transportation
- vertical-straight up and down
- margin-border or edge
- hydrogen-gas that has no color or smell and burns easily
- perpetual-lasting forever
- moored-holding a ship in place
- apprehension-anxious feeling
- cylinders-round figures with two flat circular bases
- permeated-to pass through every part
- height-altitude
- hindrance-a thing that provides resistance, delay, or obstruction to something or someone.
Vocabulary & Spelling Week 6--5/15-5/19
- bizarre -striking, out of the ordinary
- concussions-jarring injury to the brain
- dilate-to become wide
- melodrama-extravagant theatrics with exaggerated motions and stereotypical characters
- maneuver-method of working involving expert movement
- urban- relating to the city
- Bedlam-state of uproar
- catapult-a device that hurls something
- ironic-opposite of literal meaning-improbable
- perishable-able to spoil or decay