Vocabulary Words (My Great-Grandparents and Their Journey)

Birds migrate from the north to the south every winter.

• move

• stay

• travel

• transport

Our grandparents would recount the stories of their early lives in their native homeland.

• count again

• check

• compute

• retell

When you go to work, you become part of the labor force.

• volunteer

• worker

• job

• company

He never has one steady job, but instead does a variety of non- permanent odd jobs like painting and carpentry.

• regular jobs

• nice jobs

• high-paying jobs

• temporary jobs

Susan doesn't know how she feels about life in her new country. She is ambivalent about it.

• certain

• unsure

• final

• true

The building is so old and its structure is deteriorating. It may collapse soon.

• strong

• sturdy

• falling apart

• broken

The winter in Wisconsin is brutal. It is cold and snowy all the time.

• perfect

• fine

• very harsh

• very cold

When food was scarce in the wintertime, pioneers suffered from hunger.

• not enough

• enough

• sufficient

• divided equally

Pioneers had to build their own houses so they wouldn't be affected by the elements, such as wind, rain, snow, and hail.

• pioneers

• houses

• affected

• weather

After a long winter, the first warm days make life bearable again.

• too much

• tolerable

• insufferable

• not acceptable