Power Words - Wonder pg 3-60

so frightened that one is unable to move; terrified.

• petrified

• sighed

• exaggerate

• simile

give a long, deep, loud breath expressing sadness, relief, tiredness, or a similar feeling.

• sighed

• obnoxious

• insert

• avoid

to copy or follow as a pattern, model, or example

• imitate

• obnoxious

• metaphor

• contagious

represent (something) as being larger, better, or worse than it really is.

Example: I caught a fish a mile long!

• exaggerate

• simile

• metaphor

• avoid

A kind of figurative language – when you compare two unlike things using like or as.

Example: I am as hungry as a horse.

• simile

• metaphor

A kind of figurative language – when you compare two things stating one thing IS another.

Example: She is a beast on the soccer field!

• metaphor

• simile

is extremely unpleasant, offensive, or distasteful

• obnoxious

• avoid

• contagious

• insert

keep away from or stop oneself from doing (something).

• avoid

• exaggerate

• simile

• imitate

spread to and affect others.

• contagious

• avoid

• insert

• exaggerate

place, fit, or put (something) into another thing

• insert

• obnoxious

• avoid

• contagious