Monday, March 21, 2011

Vocab and Spelling for week of March 21

Yellow: again, debate, beyond, degree, another, believe, divide, depend, awhile, among, between, desire, develop, aboard, upon, against, beneath, afraid, because, aloud, defend, agreed, begun, direct

Red/Pink: phrase, alphabet, enough, daughter, physics, dolphin, elephant, cough, nephew, tough, phantom, naughty, orphan, laughter, trophy, photocopy, telephone, taught, caught, paragraph, fought, photograph, homophone, rough

Blue: prewar, postwar, forethought, afterward, afterthought, preseason, forearm, postcolonial,  afternoon, predate, preoccupied, postseason, prejudege, preposition, postdate, forecourt, predetermine, foreordain, prefix, foreknowledge, forewarn, aftertaste, preexisiting

Vocabulary - words this week come from Across the Wide Dark Sea

anchor - a heavy metal hook attached to a ship and dropped overboard to hold the ship in place
cramped - crowded; not enough room to move about
journey - a trip from one place to another
seeping - slowly leaking; oozing
settlement - a small community in a new place
survive - to stay alive; to hold up or withstand
weary - tired; needing rest

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