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Grade 5 Defining Words
"Alot" is
  1. a word that means, "many."
  2. a word that means, "often."
  3. not a word.
  4. a word that often begins a sentence.
  5. a word that often ends a sentence.
Grade 5 Defining Words
A word with a similar meaning as another word
  1. antonym
  2. convince
  3. describe
  4. synonym
Grade 5 Defining Words
The period of time when the sun darkens before the sun goes down.
  1. ignorance
  2. rural
  3. evident
  4. dusk
Grade 5 Defining Words
to look at somebody or something for a long time
  1. to steal
  2. to think
  3. to agree
  4. to stare
Grade 5 Defining Words
specific information about the main idea
  1. opinion
  2. detail
  3. dialogue
  4. event
Grade 5 Defining Words CCSS: CCRA.L.4, L.5.4
the process of adding something to something else
  1. terms
  2. particular
  3. compound
  4. addition
Grade 5 Defining Words
A descendant or offspring, as a child, plant, or animal (family, children).
  1. yonder
  2. progeny
  3. buccaneers
  4. flannels
Grade 5 Defining Words
gloomy; to be filled with sadness; depressing
  1. hillock
  2. harpsichord
  3. guzzling
  4. somber
Grade 5 Defining Words
Choose the best word to fit the definition.

Tell how things are different
  1. advice
  2. contrast
  3. prolific
  4. summary
Grade 5 Defining Words CCSS: CCRA.L.4, L.5.4
came to a conclusion
  1. settled
  2. agreed
  3. arrived
  4. located
Grade 5 Defining Words
Condescend means to come down to another's mental or social level.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 5 Defining Words CCSS: CCRA.L.4, L.5.4
pieces of hard whitish tissue that make up a skeleton
  1. cattle
  2. bones
  3. sand
  4. insects
Grade 5 Defining Words
A word that means the opposite of another word
  1. synonym
  2. convince
  3. antonym
  4. interpret
Grade 5 Defining Words CCSS: CCRA.L.4, L.5.4
produced books or magazines in large quantities
  1. settled
  2. prepared
  3. arrived
  4. printed
Grade 5 Defining Words
To express one's thoughts or feelings.
  1. smirked
  2. gait
  3. vent
  4. stave
Grade 5 Defining Words
to tell or write briefly about the main ideas in a selection
  1. summarize
  2. dialogue
  3. interjection
  4. evidence
Grade 5 Defining Words
To explain what something is like
  1. describe
  2. convince
  3. antonym
  4. synonym
Grade 5 Defining Words
Massacre; the slaughter of a great number of people, as in battle.
  1. carnage
  2. girth
  3. sleuth
  4. summit
Grade 5 Defining Words
A break in the earth's crust accompanied by a displacement of rock masses parallel to the break:
  1. susceptible
  2. shuddered
  3. assistant
  4. fault
Grade 5 Defining Words
Supreme or outstanding, grand, glorious, noble, majestic.
  1. tarpaulin
  2. candor
  3. sublime
  4. draft
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