Week 24 Vocabulary Practice

To shrink, wrinkle, or wither

• Shrivel

• Scoffed

• Toppple

• Withered

Falling or moving downward very quickly

• Shrivel

• Scoffed

• Plunging

• Territories

Someone who looks for gold, silver, or other minerals in the ground

• Scoffed

• Settlement

• Shrivel

• Prospector

To express ridicule or contempt towards an idea

• Topple

• Plunging

• Scoffed

• Withered

A place where people live when they first arrive in an area that is new to them

• Settlements

• Territories

• Withered

• Shrivel

Large areas of land where people start living in a region new to them

• Prospector

• Territories

• Settlement

• Scoffed

To collapse or fall

• Topple

• Plunging

• Withered

• Settlement

Something that has dried up from heat or lack of moisture

• Shrivel

• Scoffed

• Territories

• Withered