Week 5 Vocabulary Quiz

"I sniffed my orange, admired its color and its tiny pores.."

What does the word pores mean?

• small blue flowers

• Wilted, not firm

• Dizzy, weak

• Small opening

To cut a line on the surface

• Buckled

• Score

• Spasm

• Lugged

"...wild blue forget-me-nots suddenly bloomed in one corner of our big field."

Forget-me-not means-

• small pores

• laughed quietly

• small blue flowers

• Wilted, not firm

To break up the earth in preparation for planting-

• striding

• plunge

• plow

• lugged

To jump or dive energetically-

• Limp

• Woozy

• Float

• Plunge

"Father came striding across the field in his rubber boots."

Striding means-

• laughed quietly

• announced

• fall celebration

• walked with long steps

to laugh quietly

• Chuckle

• Float

• Howl

• Glisten

"...carrying me under his arm, lugged me back to the house..."

Lugged means-

• bent or collapsed

• walked with long steps

• carried something heavy with effort

• tripped and fell

"Before a polio vaccine was developed, I knew that polio killed or crippled thousands of people..."

Vaccine means-

• Medicine given to prevent catching a disease

• jump or dive energetically

• disabled or unable to walk normally

• small openings

A tiny creature that infects a living organism with a disease-

• Glisten

• Contaminate

• Heralded

• Virus