1. Annoyed to Be Annoyed Means to Feel Bothered Or Irritated
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Vocabulary Unit 2/Week 2
1. annoyed – To be annoyed means to feel bothered or irritated.
Having to wake up early annoyed my father and made him grumpy.
2. attitude – An attitude is a way of thinking, acting, or feeling.
The girls had fun working together because they both had a good attitude.
3. commotion – A commotion is a noisy disturbance.
The swans made a commotion with their squawking and splashing.
4. cranky – A cranky person is grouchy or in a bad mood.
Being hungry makes Neil feel cranky.
5. familiar – Something familiar is well-known because it was heard or seen before.
I took a familiar route from the bus stop to my house so that I would not get lost.
6. frustrated – To be frustrated means to feel disappointed by being kept from doing something.
The student was frustrated by the difficult assignment.
7. selfish – Selfish people care only about themselves.
The two friends were not selfish at all and shared everything.
8. specialty – A specialty is something that someone does particularly well or gives extra attention to.
Understanding x-rays is a specialty that requires training and practice.
Vocabulary Unit 2 Week 3
1. crumbled – If something is crumbled then it broke into small pieces
The old brick wall had crumbled over the years.
2. droughts – Droughts are long periods of dry weather without rainfall.
Because of the lack of rain, farmers’ crops died during the droughts.
3. ecosystem – An ecosystem is all the living and nonliving things in an area.
A reef ecosystem can be disrupted if you remove one species that lives in it.
4. extinct – Something that is extinct no longer exists.
The American buffalo was hunted so much that it almost became extinct.
5. flourished – Something that flourished thrived or grew strongly.
The sunflowers grew tall and flourished in the rich soil.
6. fragile – Something that is fragile is delicate and tends to break easily.
Tom held the nest carefully because he was afraid the fragile eggs might break.
7. imbalance – An imbalance in something means that its parts are not in an equal, steady, or secure position.
Too much algae created an imbalance in the pond’s ecosystem.
8. ripples – Something that ripples forms small waves.
The water ripples around the swimming dog.
Vocabulary Unit 2/Week 4
1. camouflaged – Something camouflaged is hidden by looking like its surroundings. It is hard to see the camouflaged insect because it blends in with the leaf.
2. dribbles – To dribble is to flow or let flow in small drops.
Water dribbles from the leaky faucet all night.
3. extraordinary – Something extraordinary is very unusual or remarkable.
The owl has an extraordinary ability to stare for a long time without blinking.
4. poisonous – Something poisonous harms or kills by chemical action.
Some wild mushrooms can make you sick because they are poisonous.
5. pounce – To pounce is to leap or spring suddenly in attack.
The bobcat likes to pounce on fish in the river.
6. predator – A predator is an animal that lives by hunting other animals for food.
A leopard is a fierce predator that can catch most animals that it hunts.
7. prey – An animal that is hunted by another animal is its prey.
The venus flytrap plant traps its prey inside its sticky leaves.
8. vibrations – Vibrations are rapid motions back and forth or up and down.
Eric plucked his guitar strings, causing vibrations as the strings moved quickly back an forth.
Vocabulary Unit 2/Week 5
1. brittle – If something is brittle, it is easily broken. The brittle, dry leaf fell apart when I closed my hand around it.
2. creative – Creative people show the ability to do something in a new way.
The florist made original and creative flower arrangements.
3. descriptive – Descriptive things describe or tell about something.
The speaker gave a vivid, descriptive talk about the rain forest.
4. outstretched – Outstretched means extended to full length.
The seagull glided through the air on outstretched wings.
Poetry Terms
metaphor – “The stars are diamonds” is a metaphor because it compares two unlike things. “The garbage truck is a monster” is a metaphor because it compares two unlike things. simile - “The long grass is like hair” is a simile because it compares two unlike things using like or as. rhyme - Two words rhyme when they sound the same, such as claw and draw. meter - Meter is the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.