5.3 B Vocabulary

Burden means

• weight.

• brush.

• habit.

• den.

To cease means to

• tease.

• push.

• stop.

• rise.

Dread means

• sorrow.

• anger.

• doubt.

• fear.

Ominous means

• threatening.

• humorous.

• thrilling.

• curious.

To ponder something means to

• think carefully about it.

• talk to others about it.

• write a poem about it.

• read a book about it.

If a person is a prophet, it means the person

• practices in order to be the best at something.

• predicts what will happen in the future.

• pretends to know all the answers.

• protects people from harm.

Relevance means that something is

• repeated many times to make its meaning clear.

• important and connects to something else. *

• confusing and difficult to understand.

• valuable and worth a lot of money.

To suspect means to

• believe that something could be different from what it seems.

• stay away from something that could be dangerous.

• refuse to believe that something could be true.

• make a mistake about something important.

A burden is a ___________.

• load

• secret

To cease making noise is to _______ making noise.

• start

• stop