Vocabulary - Stella's Stand

What does it mean for something to be occupied? Pick all correct answers.

• To be taken up or busy with something

• To not care what anyone thinks.

• To be lived in.

• To be asleep.

Fill in the blank.

Shaina heard a loud _____________ coming from the street, so she ran outside to see what was happening.

• communication

• commotion

• canary

• carnation

Knock, to be sure the restroom is not ___________, before you open the door.

Draw a picture of something stupendous!

Answer explanation

Stupendous describes someone or something that is amazing, fantastic, great, wondrous, or gigantic!

What does it mean to lug something?

• To hit it with a bat.

• To love it a lot.

• To carry it around.

• To drive it in a car.

A noisy or violent disturbance is called a ______________.

• carnation

• motion

• commotion

• crash

The couple had to unload the moving truck, and then ___ all of their furniture into the house.

What word means to capture someone's interest and/or hold their attention?

• commotion

• conceal

• fascinate

• flit

Answer explanation

If you can catch someone's attention and keep them interested, then you can fascinate them.

Draw something flitting!

Answer explanation

To flit is to move lightly and/or swiftly from one place to another; to dart, whiz, or zoom.

What word best replaces the underlined word in the sentence?

Andrew watched as the grasshoppers hopped and whizzed about in the blades of tall, golden grass.

• walked

• frolicked

• stood

• flitted