Reilly 5th Grade 2024-2025 Vocabulary

desperate

• feeling a strong need or urgency due to a difficult situation
• aggressive or threatening
• someone who has lived through a dangerous or difficult situation

refugee

• a person forced to leave their home due to conflict or disaster
• resistant to a disease
• having doubts or mistrust

debris

• scattered remains of something destroyed
• a widespread disease affecting a large population, which is the central theme of "The Run" series
• strengthened to resist attack

survivor

• someone who has lived through a dangerous or difficult situation
• someone who has contracted the disease
• carfeul watchness to detect danger

a comparison of two things using like or as

• metaphor

• similie

• personification

• emblem

plague

• a widespread disease affecting a large population, which is the central theme of "The Run" series
• moving quietly and secretly
• not known or recognized

abandoned

• left without inhabitants
• a person forced to leave their home due to conflict or disaster
• to leave a place quickly because of danger

a protective suit, usually made of heavy metal, worn by knights in the Middle Ages

The knight wore his _________ and prepared for battle

• armor

• joust

• mount

• scavenge

contaminated

• polluted or made unsafe by the presence of something harmful

• a sudden increase in the occurrence of a disease
• the physuical features of a region

a symbol

• immense

• Allah

• emblem

• indifferent