<p> The Lorax Vocabulary</p><p>Tier One: Basic Vocabulary</p><p>"A thneeds a fine something Needs Something that is necessary to that all people need." live a healthy life</p><p>Protect "Protect it from axes that Keep safe from harm or injury hack." </p><p>Tier Two: Essential Vocabulary</p><p>An activity that someone is Business involved in as their "How my business did grow!" occupation/job</p><p>As a member of a Citizen community, taking a stand Action Central Theme for what you believe in</p><p>Deforestation The removal of trees Central Theme</p><p>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."</p><p>Time that still has yet to come Future "Oh, their future is dreary." (time following the moment of speaking or writing)</p><p>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." </p><p>A group of machines which "Your machinery chugs on, day use energy to perform an and night without stop making Machinery activity Gluppity-Glupp." </p><p>To send something (mail, truck, train, ship, etc.) "I was shipping them forth to the Shipping South!" </p><p>Air pollution by a mixture "No one can sing who has smog Smog of fog and haze in their throat." </p><p>"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." </p><p>Tier Three: Extended Vocabulary</p><p>To break free from something "To escape from the smog you've Escape smogged-up around here." </p><p>Having a striking beauty "One morning, I came to this Glorious glorious place." </p><p>"I was fixing some pipes when that Nuisance A person or thing causing old nuisance Lorax came back with inconvenience or annoyance more gripes." </p><p>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."</p>