Tier One: Basic Vocabulary

The Lorax Vocabulary

"A thneeds a fine something Needs Something that is necessary to that all people need." live a healthy life

Protect "Protect it from axes that Keep safe from harm or injury hack."

Tier Two: Essential Vocabulary

An activity that someone is Business involved in as their "How my business did grow!" occupation/job

As a member of a Citizen community, taking a stand Action Central Theme for what you believe in

Deforestation The removal of trees Central Theme

A building where items are "And, in no time at all, in the made and assembled by factory I built, the whole Once- Factory people or machines ler Family was working full tilt."

Time that still has yet to come Future "Oh, their future is dreary." (time following the moment of speaking or writing)

Invented Create or design something "So I quickly invented my that does not yet exist Super-Axe-Hacker which whacked off four Truffula Trees at one smacker."

A group of machines which "Your machinery chugs on, day use energy to perform an and night without stop making Machinery activity Gluppity-Glupp."

To send something (mail, truck, train, ship, etc.) "I was shipping them forth to the Shipping South!"

Air pollution by a mixture "No one can sing who has smog Smog of fog and haze in their throat."

"Unless someone like you cares Except if... (an example of a whole awful lot, nothing is Unless something that can be done) going to get better."

Tier Three: Extended Vocabulary

To break free from something "To escape from the smog you've Escape smogged-up around here."

Having a striking beauty "One morning, I came to this Glorious glorious place."

"I was fixing some pipes when that Nuisance A person or thing causing old nuisance Lorax came back with inconvenience or annoyance more gripes."

Pardon The action of forgiving or "And so, said the Lorax, -please being forgiven for something pardon my cough- they cannot live done wrong here." "He peeks out of the shuttersand Hinged panels on a window sometimes he speaks and tells how Shutters the Lorax was lifted away."