Tuesday, February 21, 2012

This Week's Spelling & Vocabulary

Spelling & Vocabulary Unit 5, Week 2

Spelling:


1. poll (survey)

2. presents (gifts)

3. stationary (immobile)

4. counsel (counselor, Mr. Bavero)

5. peel (banana peel)

6. council (town council)

7. current (current events; river flow)

8. sweet (yummy)

9. peal (peal of laughter)

10. stationery (paper, note cards, etc.)

11. waist (where you wear a belt)

12. peer (someone your age; to look into)

13. manner (how you act)

14. presence (here, not absent)

15. pole (flag)

16. manor (large home)

17. suite (connecting rooms in a hotel)

18. currant (fruit)

19. pier (jetty, dock)

20. waste (trash)

Vocabulary:

1. shortage: (n) a small amount or lack of supplies

2. bedlam: (n) a place or condition of wild uproar or confusion

3. outcast: (n) a person rejected by and driven out of a group

4. complex: (adj) hard to understand or do

5. strategy: (n) a careful plan for achieving a goal

6. civilization: (n) a society in which agriculture, trade, government, art, and science are highly developed

7. traditional (adj) the knowledge, beliefs, or customs that one generation passes to another

8. reflected: (v) light, sound, images, or heat that is turned around or bent

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