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6th Grade
12/06/2009

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Term
Affection
Definition

n. fond or tender feeling

ajd. Gentle and loving

Term
Appeal
Definition

v. To make an ernest request; to ask

to be in intrest to, to be attracttive

n. An ernest request for help

The power to attract or to be in intrest

Term
Clasp
Definition

to grasp tightly

A strong grasp or hold

something as a hook or fasterner that holds two parts together

Term

Conspicuous

 

Definition
Easily or plain seen
Term
contribute, contributed, contributes, contribution, contributer, and Contributers
Definition

v. to give along with others who are giving

to have part in bringing

n. That which is giving

n. One who gives

Term
Declare, or Declarted
Definition

v. To make known; to state openly

n. A public statement

Term
Eloquent, eloquence
Definition

adj. Skilled at speaking or writing 

n. Skill at speaking or writing the power to move poeple

Term
Exhibit, Exhibited,Exhibition
Definition

v. To show in public

n. An item or collection of items in a public show

n. a large-scale public show

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Ferry, or Ferried
Definition

N. A boat that carries people and good back and forth across a stretch of water

V. to move people

or goods across a strech of water.

Term
Immigrant, or Immigrants 
Definition
n. a person who comes into a country to live there.
Term

lofty

 

Definition

adj.  Very tall or high

Noble in feeling high in Ideals

showing a too proud or supirior attatude 

Term
Pedistal
Definition
n. a base or support on which something will stand
Term
persecute, persecution,or persecuted  
Definition

v. to treat cruley or hashly because of political, relegious, or other differences

n. The state or condition of being persecuted

Term
Poverty
Definition
n. the state of being poor
Term
unveil, or unveiled
Definition

v. To remove a covering from

to make known or revel for the first time ever.

Term
Lesson 2
Definition
Term
arrogant, or arrogance
Definition

adj. showing to much pride in one self.

n. A feeling of too much pride in one self

Term
Boycott
Definition

V.to join other in refuseing to deal with a person or group

n. The act of boycotting

Term
Campaign
Definition

n. a series of actions intended to accomplish a goal

a series of milatary action in a pecticluar area

v. to take part in actions planed to accomplish a peticluar goal.

Term
ceremony 
Definition
n. a formal event held in honor of a special occation
Term
Custody 
Definition

n. control over and reponsibility for care

in the keeping of the police, or jail

Term
degrade 
Definition

v. to bring shame or degrace upon.

adj. causing shame or degrace.


Term
Detain
Definition
v. to stop or hold; to keep from going on.
Term
Extend 
Definition

v. to reach out

to offer

to make longer 

to stretch or lie

Term
Intergrate
Definition

v. to unite into a whole, espesially to end the seperation of races

n. the act of uniting or bringing together espesitally people of defferent races


Term
Segregate 
Definition

v.  to keep seperate

n. the act of uniting or bringing together, espesially people of different races

Term
Surpreme
Definition

adj.The highest in rank or position.

Of the greatest improtence.

Term

triumph


Definition

n. A note worthy succsess

The joy winning brings

v. to win

Adj. joyful over a victory or succsess 

Term
Vacate
Definition
v. to make empty, as by leaving. 
Term
Verdict
Definition

n. the decision reached at the end of a trial

A judgment or opinion 

Term
Violate
Definition

v. to break a law or a promise

to treat an improper or direspectful way.

n. A breaking of or failing to keep something like a law or promise.

Term
Lesson 3
Definition
Term
Abundant
Definition

adj. More than enough, plentiful.

n. a great amount

Term
Arid
Definition
adj. having little or no rain fall; very dry.
Term
distinct
Definition

adj. not the same different

unmistakeable; difinte


Term
Graze
Definition

v. to feed on growing grass

to touch lightly in passing

Term
Hectic
Definition
adj. full of ferverish activity, haste or confution
Term
Horde
Definition
n. A large group or crowed, espesially one the move.
Term
Humid
Definition

adj. having a large amount or mosture in the air.

n. the amount of mosture in the air.

Term
Incredible
Definition

adj. hard to believe, Impossible


Term
Inhabit
Definition

v. to live in or on

n. a person or animal that lives in a certain place.

Term
peninsula
Definition
n. a piece of land, connected  to a larger land mass that juts out and is almost completly surrounded by water.
Term
Rural 
Definition
adj. of relating to the country and the people who live there.
Term
Sanctuary 
Definition

n. A place of saftey or shelter.

 Protection offered by such place.

Term
Spendor
Definition

n. magnificence; Brilliance of appearence

adj. Very Impressive; magificent

Term
Squalor
Definition

n. Filth or misery

adj. Dirty and unfit for living, espesially as a result of neglect.

Term
Terrain
Definition

n. An area of land; a religon

The surface features of a region.

Term
Lesson 4
Definition

Term

Aloft


Definition
adv. Up in the air, especially in flight.
Term
Attain
Definition

v. To reach; to arrive at

to achieve 

Term
Buffet
Definition

n. A piece of furniture with drawers an shelves for the display of plates, dishes, and bowls.

A meal laid out for guests to help themslves

v. To pound repadatally; to batter.

Term
Elude
Definition

v. to escape by being quick or clever.

adj. hard to find or capture

hard to explain or make clear

Term
Falammable 
Definition
adj. Able to catch fire easily
Term
Hover
Definition
v. to remain in place over a object or location.
Term
Inflate
Definition
v. to fill with air or other gas.
Term
Jepordy
Definition

n. Danger

v. to put in danger of loss or injury.

Term
Moor
Definition

v. to hold in place with ropes

n. a place to witch a boat or air craft can be moored.

Term
Plummet
Definition
v. to fall suddenly towared the earthor to a lower level; to plunge
Term
Pollute
Definition

v. to make impure or dirty

n. The action of polluting; the sate of being polluted

Term
Propel
Definition

v. to push forward


Term
Sationary
Definition

adj. Not moving 

Not changing

Term
Superb
Definition
adj. Of the highest quality, grand splindid.
Term
Swivel
Definition

n. A fastening that allows any part to joined onto it to swing freely.

v. to turn freely around a fixed point.

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