5th Grade WordMaster List #2 Winter 2025

yen

• Japanese money; A strong desire; craving (idiom)
• To take weapons away; To remove the fuse from a bomb, making it safe; (add -ing) Someone or something that makes you feel less angry
• Bending easily; flexible
• Care taken to avoid danger or mistakes.

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C

disarm

• To take weapons away; To remove the fuse from a bomb, making it safe; (add -ing) Someone or something that makes you feel less angry
• Bending easily; flexible
• Care taken to avoid danger or mistakes.
• To rob by force, especially during wartime; to seize wrongfully; Property stolen by force

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4B

CCSS.L.3.4C

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

lithe

• Bending easily; flexible
• Care taken to avoid danger or mistakes.
• To rob by force, especially during wartime; to seize wrongfully; Property stolen by force
• Marked with spots or rounded patches

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

caution

• Care taken to avoid danger or mistakes.
• To rob by force, especially during wartime; to seize wrongfully; Property stolen by force
• Marked with spots or rounded patches
• To return to where it came from; A curved flat piece of wood that can be thrown so that it will return to the thrower

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C

plunder

• To rob by force, especially during wartime; to seize wrongfully; Property stolen by force
• Marked with spots or rounded patches
• To return to where it came from; A curved flat piece of wood that can be thrown so that it will return to the thrower
• To withdraw or move back; A quiet or secluded place in which one can rest and relax

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

dappled

• Marked with spots or rounded patches
• To return to where it came from; A curved flat piece of wood that can be thrown so that it will return to the thrower
• To withdraw or move back; A quiet or secluded place in which one can rest and relax
• Of poor quality; inferior or cheap

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

boomerang

• To return to where it came from; A curved flat piece of wood that can be thrown so that it will return to the thrower
• To withdraw or move back; A quiet or secluded place in which one can rest and relax
• Of poor quality; inferior or cheap
• A giant wave usually caused by an earthquake beneath the ocean floor

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.10

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

retreat

• To withdraw or move back; A quiet or secluded place in which one can rest and relax
• Of poor quality; inferior or cheap
• A giant wave usually caused by an earthquake beneath the ocean floor
• To make (someone) angry, annoyed or irritated

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C

shoddy

• Of poor quality; inferior or cheap
• A giant wave usually caused by an earthquake beneath the ocean floor
• To make (someone) angry, annoyed or irritated
• Long and think in a way that suggests a lack of strength

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

tsunami

• A giant wave usually caused by an earthquake beneath the ocean floor
• To make (someone) angry, annoyed or irritated
• Long and think in a way that suggests a lack of strength
• Rewards gained through military victory or robbery; An object damaged or flawed in the making; To seize by force; rob; plunder; To damage or ruin; (add -ed) Pampered get anything one wants; Ruined; rotten

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.10

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4