Week 18 Vocabulary Words

form a mental image; visualize in your mind

• imagine

• encourage

• scarce

• abundant

To lift my spirits when I’m sad, I close my eyes and ______ the happy times I spent with my grandmother when she was still alive.

• imagine

• encourage

• scarce

• abundant

to give support and hope to someone in an effort to build their confidence

• pierce

• encourage

• mislead

• scorch

Kaylee’s mother was able to ______ her to continue playing basketball even though she wanted to quit, and this even helped Kaylee start to believe in herself again.

• pierce

• encourage

• mislead

• scorch

very small in amount or number

• abundant

• encourage

• mislead

• scarce

Food was _______ during the Holocaust because many people were not allowed to grow their own crops and had to ration their skimpy amounts of food.

• abundant

• encourage

• mislead

• scarce

available in large quantities

• abundant

• scarce

• scorch

• imagine

My aunt Sarah will never run out of washing powder and will always have an _______ supply of it because she buys huge amounts of it every time it goes on sale.

• accompany

• splurge

• abundant

• scarce

to burn the surface of

• splurge

• scorch

• scarce

• mislead

Mrs. PJ always ______ the chicken because she is a horrible cook and tends to burn anything she puts in a frying pan.

• splurges

• scorches

• scarce

• misleads