Vocabulary
Modify
To change/ edit
Your mom keeps looking over your shoulder while you're doing homework. You say, "mom, I can't concentrate when you're breathing down my neck!"
Idiom - watching me
Date
1. Romantic date
2. Today's date is 4/29
Lean fats are essential to a healthy diet. Vegetables are very necessary too. Using context clues, what does essential mean?
Necessary
Use chaotic in a sentence
Crazy
Courteous
Kind or generous
Time is a thief
Metaphor- Time passes quickly
Nail
1. The thin, hard part of the end of a finger or toe
2. A slim, pointed metal rod with a flat top
Lisa hates all types of seafood. She detests tuna just as much as she dislikes shrimp. Using context clues, what does detest mean?
Dislikes
Use improvise in a sentence
create/ make up
Decipher
To solve/ Find the answer to/ Figure out
Break the ice
Idiom - to initiate a conversation or make people feel more comfortable
Patient
1. Doctor's patient
2. Waiting
Our last principal was very lax with the rules, unlike our new principal who enforces them all. Using context clues, what does lax mean?
Not strict, severe
Use ridicule in a sentence
Be mean/ put down
Illusion
Not true/ or something that is not what it seems to be
She cried a river of tears
Hyperbole - use to exaggerate the amount of crying someone did
Face
1. A person's face
2. Confront/ deal with something
Last night I had copious amounts of homework, but tonight I don’t have any! Using context clues, what does copious mean?
A lot
Use detrimental in a sentence
to cause harm/ harmful
Attribute
A quality or characteristic that someone or something has
He's a lion in battle
Metaphor - emphasizing their bravery and strength
Match
1. Used to spark a fire
2. A pair
My gloomy sister predicted that it would rain the next weekend for our outdoor field day at school even though it was too soon to know what the weather would be. I told her to stop being so pessimistic!
Expecting the worst to happen
Use transpire in a sentence
to occur/ happen