Reading Mid-term for 5th grade
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landry4lsu on December 16, 2009
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Plot | is the pattern of events in a story |
| Characters | are people or animals in a story |
| Cause | is what made something happen |
| Effect | is what happened as the result of a cause |
| Theme | is the underlying meaning of a story |
| Setting | is where and when the story takes place |
| Sequence | is the order that events happen in a selection |
| Essential | absolutely necessary;very important |
| Expanded | to make or grow larger;increase in size;enlarge |
| Guaranteed | to make certain that sokmething that something will happen as a result |
| Constructed | to put together;fit together;build |
| Devastation | the act of laying waste,destrying |
| Resorcefull | good at thinking of ways to do things,quick-witted |
| Gnawed | to bite at and wear away |
| Lair | den of resting place of a wild animal |
| Ravine | a long,deep,narrow valley eroded by running water |
| Confidence | fiem belief in yorself;self-confidence |
| Moking | to laugh at;make fun of |
| Unique | having like or equal |
| Advice | opinion about what should be done |
| Hustled | to push or shove roughly or hurriedly; jostle rudely |
| Immigrants | someone who comes to a country or region to live there |
| Luxury | use of the best and most costly food,clothes,houses,furniture,and amusements |
| Peddler | a person who travels about selling things carried in a pack or in a truck, wagon, or cart |
| Horrified | to cause to feel horror , shocked or afraid |
| Volunteer | a person who serves without pay |
| Primary | first in time,order,or important |
| Congregation | a gathering of people |
| Intermediate | middle |
| Sprouted | to begin to grow |
| Sympathize | to share another's feelings of sorrow |
| Sacrilegious | injurious or insulting to sacred persons or things |
| Contribution | money or other gifts given to help out |
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