In your own independent reading book, pick a word that you are unfamiliar with. In your post, tell what your word is, and the sentence that it came from. After you have selected a word, look it up and give the definition for it.
Remember, your post must be TWO complete sentences! Don't forget to add your number at the end.
My word is... Contribution! Which means like a part in something other people do. #22
ReplyDeleteI am reading the book Blindsided and the word I don't know is flailing. The sentence it came from is Now that she focused on it, she could see there was a lot of FLAILING about going on. The definition is to thresh or beat with or as if with a flail.#12
ReplyDeleteI am reading As Simple as it Seems my word is syndrome. It means a group of symptoms that together are characteristic of a specific disorder disease or the like. Number 5!
ReplyDeleteMy word is rhododendron. It's like a shrub or bush.
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My word Is Vivian I read little women my word means... Arthurian romance and enchantress, the mistress of Merlin: known as the lady of the lake
ReplyDeleteVivian was #18
ReplyDeleteMy word is goblet it is in the sentence the fire in the goblet had just turned red again. Goblet means a drinking vessel. #14
ReplyDeleteMy word is irregular, the sentence is I care irregular quadrilaterals. Definition is, not according to rule, or to the accepted principle, method, course, order.#26
ReplyDeleteMy word this week is commemorate the sentence I found that word in is... It made sence for Dad to COMMEMORATE that day with letters. In the dictionary the word means... To serve as a memorial or reminder.#7
ReplyDeleteIn my book griffin took dismay . Dismay mean to take scornfully #10
ReplyDeleteMy word is besieging it means to surround and blockade in order to capture #3
ReplyDeleteI am reading Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. My word is rapturously. "They'll love him!" Cried Aunt Petunia rapturously. Rapturously means to be full of ecstatic joy or delight #6
ReplyDeleteMy word is vile. He didn't know what vile substances could be in it. It means wrenched or bad. #21
ReplyDeleteWe'll it is easy but there was no other word so treadmill and it mean a machine that you can run on and you can choose if you want to go fast or slow.
ReplyDeleteI am #2
ReplyDeleteMy word is loafers witch came from the sentance (But everybody knows you cant by loafers for such a little guy).
ReplyDeleteLoafers are a shoe for informal wear, shaped like a moccasin. #8
The word I chose is ocular.The word ocular mean the eyes or sight. The sentce it is in is" but there was an extra helping of dread that Violet and Sunny felt when they began reading Advanced Ocular science .
ReplyDeletemy word is decibels, decibels cam from this sentence.I'm not sure what the fire alarm sounded like in the gym, but it was about ten thousand decibels in that stairwaell. The definintion is a unit used to express the intensity of a sound wave. #17
ReplyDeleteWord:poignant
ReplyDeleteDescription:emotional
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My word is gnawed it means to bite or chew 9
ReplyDeleteMy word is Peshawar it's a city in N Pakistan. 24
ReplyDeleteThere was a perdition between that tributes, a thoraxe 16
ReplyDeleteMy word is devised,it means to come up with something or a plan. In order to get her out of the room we had to devised a plan.#23
ReplyDeleteUnconscious . Without a word, I'd hitched my backpack high on my shoulders and started scrambling away, leaving the pickup and the two figures behind me, one unconscious and one completely confused and shouting. It means without awareness.#4
ReplyDeleteMy word is certificate can't figure it out.
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