| Term | Definition |
|---|
| wonderful | very good, very pleasing |
| prepared | made |
| watch out | be careful |
| cranberries | small, red fruit |
| neighbors | people who live close to one another |
| sneak | do something so that other people cannot see you |
| mood | how someone feels |
| carves | cuts into pieces or slices |
| gathered | came together |
| stuffed | a feeling of being very full; filled very full of something |
| plenty | more than enough |
| gobble | eat in a quick hungry way; the sound that a turkey makes |
| wishbone | a bone in some birds that is shaped like a "Y". People play a game with it. |
| pie | a dessert with a crust and a sweet filling |
| piecrust | the outside pastry that holds the filling of a pie |
| cornbread | a bread made from corn |
| turkey | a type of meat from a bird killed for food |
| deer | an animal with hooves that lives in forests |
| nuts | seeds with a hard shell around them |
| bake | cook in an oven |
| pumpkin | a big, orange fruit |
| feast | a large meal |
| holiday | a day to celebrate events or important people |
| poet | a person who writes a poem |
| mental images | pictures that you form in your mind |
| stanzas | groups of lines in a poem |
| suffix | a group of letters added to the end of a word |
| noun | a part of speech that stands for a person, a place, or a thing |
| pronoun | a part of speech that takes the place of nouns |
| subject pronouns | a part of speech that can be used in place of nouns that are subjects |
| rhyme | a part of text structure in which words have the same ending sound |
| rhythm | a beat, like a drum sound in music |
| vivid language | words that help you see, hear, smell, touch, and taste what the poet or author is describing |
| atlas | a book of maps |
| pilgrim | a religious person who travel a long way to the holy place |
| hunted | killed for food |
| Native Americans | the people who lived in the Americas before Europeans and others came |
| the Pilgrims | a group of early European settlers who came from Europe to the Americas in the 1600s |
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