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This means to dry up and get/look wrinkled.
What is to shrivel?
This are the things you own. They may be pieces of clothing, pots and pans, school items, etc.
What are belongings?
This means to have dried up and died, like a flower after it has bloomed.
What is withered?
This is another word for a path.
What is a trail?
This means something that falls over when it gets too tall or the top weighs too much.
What is to topple?
This means to a place to stop and stay, like a small town. It can also mean that an agreement has been reached.
What is a settlement?
This is when something or some behavior is neither really good or really bad. It is respectful behavior or it is a nice enough motel or good enough car.
What is decent?
This is when someone says something very disrespectful to another person. It is not a nice way of speaking or expressing an opinion.
What is to scoff?
This means to carry something really heavy, either with your arms, in a wagon or on a big trailer truck.
What is to haul?
This is someone who goes looking for gold or silver.
What is a prospector?
This means to really push hard, usually into water.
What is to plunge?
This means to start something, to begin something.
What is to commence?
This is a section of land, not fully a state in the United States yet.
What is a territory?
This means to have yelled loudly.
What is hollered?
This means to dry up and get wrinkled.
What is to shrivel?
When someone says something mean, such as "You don't know what you're talking about." We say this person is doing this.
What is to scoff?
Fill in the blank. "I ate a _______ meal. It wasn't great but it wasn't bad either."
What is "decent"?
Before you eat noodles that have just boiled, you need to do this to them with cold water.
What is to plunge?
Fill in the word. I ________doing my homework right after school since I had so much.
What is to "commence"?
During the gold rush, all the men who came looking for gold were called this.
What is a prospector?
When playing with blocks, the tall tower of blocks does this when it gets too tall.
What is to topple?
Fill in the blank. "I gathered my ________before I headed home as I didn't want to leave my sweater and shoes at school."
What are "belongings"?
This is a small town that has just started to be called a town. It where a group of people have just started to live. Another meaning is for this word is when you come to an agreement with someone.
What is a settlement?
Fill in the blank. "My dad had to ______ all the dirt from the hole to the front yard in a big wagon because it was so heavy."
What is to "haul"?
This is a large piece of land that hasn't joined the United States yet. People live there but this land has not formally joined the country.
What is a territory?