Making Meaning 5th Grade Vocabulary Weeks 3-4

Means “having lots of green, healthy plants.”

• befuddled

• lush

• heartless

• dim

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

Means “somewhat dark or not bright or clear.”

• quality

• deliberately

• clamber

• Dim

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.10

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

Clamber means...

• To “stay hidden, ready to spring out and attack.

• To “Poison the air, water, or soil.”

• To “climb something that is difficult to climb, using your hands and feet.”

• “Harsh, extreme, or very severe.”

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

Lurk means...

• To “stay hidden, ready to spring out and attack.”

• To “provide what is needed for life and growth.”

• A “situation in which people are treated very unfairly.”

• To “find an answer or solution to a problem.”

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

Pollute means...

• To “do what you are asked to do or what a law or rule requires you to do.”

• To “carelessly waste something such as money, time, or opportunities.”

• To “fight or argue.”

• To “poison the air, water, or soil.”

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.10

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

To “provide what is needed for life and growth”...

• Squander

• Nourish

• Defenseless

• Squash

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.K.5A

A “sudden increase or sudden strong rush."

• Stamina

• Discontinue

• Surge

• Peer

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

Means “energy and strength to keep doing something for a long time.”

• Stamina

• Positive

• Negative

• Commit

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5C

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Dissatisfied means...

• “Give reasons for or against something.”

• "Person is the same age as you."

• “Person’s beliefs about what is right and wrong or about what is important in life.”

• “Not satisfied or happy with the way things are.” When you are dissatisfied, you want something more or something different.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

Discontinue means...

• A “Way to do something, or method of doing it, especially by a series of steps.”

• To “Not continue something, or stop doing, using, or making something.”

• A "Series of events or objects in a particular order.”

• To “Point out or show.”

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.10

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4