Wonders Grade 6 Unit 1 Vocabulary

1. situated on one or both sides of something

• factors

• flanked

• alliance

• formula

2. serves as a record, official information

• classification

• documentation

• compartment

• consolation

3. a rule or method for doing something

• smuggle

• formula

• species

• glimmer

4. in the main or most important ways

• reminisce

• sarcastic

• inventory

• basically

5. reduce to fine particles

• plummeting

• available

• pulverized

• submerged

6. absolutely necessary, essential

• indispensable

• confinement

• documentation

• available

7. an entrance or a boundary

• reminisce

• pulverized

• submerged

• threshold

8. to have a fear of something

• dynamic

• exerts

• phobic

• glimmer

9. the variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem

• inventory

• adversity

• salaries

• biodiversity

10. keep from being seen, hide something from view

• cascaded

• engulfs

• formula

• obscure