A Book of Words all 5 th Grade Students Should Know By Gretchen A Heegeman A is for Aptitude A is for aptitude to show you know your vocabulary B is for barricade B is for barricade because something needs to stand in between us and them ID: 532592
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A is for Aptitude
A Book of Words all 5th Grade Students Should Know
By Gretchen A. HeegemanSlide2
A is for Aptitude
A is for aptitude, to show you know your vocabulary.Slide3
B is for barricade
B is for barricade, because something needs to stand in between us and them. Slide4
C is for concoction
C is for concoction, because who doesn’t love a concoction of different ice creams in a sundae?Slide5
D is for deft
D is for deft, because all your life any will have to be skillful with your hands.Slide6
E is for exasperation
E is for exasperation, because by June 10
th
we’re all annoyed with school.Slide7
F is for furtive
F is for furtive, because everyone has their secrets.Slide8
G is for grueling
G is for grueling, because we all need a nap.Slide9
H is for hasten
H is for hasten, because we all wish we could make the last day of school come faster.Slide10
I is for illuminate
I is for illuminate, not to lighten the night, but to lighten your stress.Slide11
J is for jargon
J is for jargon so you know what your science teacher is talking about.Slide12
K is for kindle
K is for kindle, not the Amazon device, but the start of a feeling or emotion.Slide13
L is for luminous
L is for luminous, so you can feel the moon’s soft, radiant light fall upon you as you sleep under the stars.Slide14
M is for meander
M is for meander. So is it wrong to wander?Slide15
N is for narrate
N is for narrate, because if it didn’t, you wouldn’t know what was going on in
Hamlet.Slide16
O is for ominous
O is for ominous, because all bad things happen in three’s.Slide17
P is for plenteous
P is for plenteous, because without it we would have no food.Slide18
Q is for quell
Q is for quell, because we can all overcome our fears.Slide19
R is for recuperate
R is for recuperate, because physicians are the best at
it… except maybe this physician. Slide20
S is for swagger
S is for swagger, because we’re all too arrogant to not have it.Slide21
T is for terse
T is for terse, because we don’t want to listen to the teacher talk for hours on end.Slide22
U is for uncanny
U is for uncanny, because nobody is normal.Slide23
V is for vigilant
V is for vigilant, because if we weren’t, we’d trip over that rock.Slide24
W is for waft
W is for waft, like the leaves that fly in the wind.Slide25
X is for xylophone
X is for xylophone, the only word that seems to start with x.Slide26
Y is for yearn
Y is for yearn, because we all want
that iPhone. Slide27
Z is for zeal
Z is for zeal, because we can’t wait to finish this book.Slide28
And every 5
th grader should know these words
Because if they don’t, they’ll be rooked.
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