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