5th Grade Vocabulary 2020

Uses the words like or as to compare two things that are not alike.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Infinite

Compares unlike things, but does not use like or as.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Infinite

Gives human qualities to non living things.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Infinite

Without an end. Endless

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Infinite

Without aim or purpose : not having a goal or purpose

• Aimless

• Mutter

• Mis-

• Inter-

to speak in a low voice with lips partly closed.

• Aimless

• Mutter

• Mis-

• Inter-

Mistaken,” “wrong,” “wrongly,” “incorrectly,”

• Aimless

• Mutter

• Mis-

• Inter-

Between

• Aimless

• Mutter

• Mis-

• Inter-

A group of people from one country who build a settlement in another territory, or land.

• Colony

• Clambering

• Rebel

• Blacksmith

To climb awkwardly

• Colony

• Clambering

• Rebel

• Blacksmith