Grade 5-6: Vocabulary Lesson for Wednesday, Week 13

This week's theme is: Earthquake effects

Word List 13

1. refuge: A place that provides safety and shelter.
2. salvage: Saving damaged materials
3. predicament: A situation that is hard to fix.
4. terrain: An area of land or region.
5. deteriorate: To become worth less value, to destruct.
6. retrieve: To get back, to find and bring back.
7. contaminate: To make unclean.

Wednesday Activities

1. Create your own vocabulary book for review. Use this site to make your own book. Type in your words and definitions. You can make up to 10 pages. Print it out and carry it around with you to practice in your spare time.
2. Flashcardstash- Flashcard Stash allows you to create and customize your own digital flashcards. You can create flashcards with anything. Such as dates for History class, vocabulary for French class, or words for the SAT.
3. Connectors - Click on the link and type in your vocabulary words and their definitions in the three columns. Your definitions will be typed in column 2 and continue in column 3. Print out the sheet and cut it into the individual blocks. Keep the pieces in a Ziploc bag and try to put the connectors together during your travel time or free time at home.

Other Help

If you need more information on your words, click on the link to use a on-line dictionary.

Use the daily activities to help you remember words that you learn each week. It is much easier to remember what the words mean if you do something with them and use them frequently in talking with your parents, family and friends.

Sample sentences:

With her house destroyed, she took refuge with her aunt and uncle.
During the earthquake, Clara's only refuge was in the streets away from the building.

The only thing to do was to salvage the furniture as much as possible.
She did not want to go inside but she had to salvage her belongings.

What a horrible predicament to be in.
She must now face this predicament that could prove to be very dangerous.

They had to pick their way carefully through the icy river and frozen terrain.
I walked cautiously to my house, with its uneven terrain and various hazards.

Things are going to further deteriorate before things start to stabilize.
As the aftershock hit, we watched the situation deteriorate.

She reached down to retrieve the flashlight in her belt before going inside.
She wanted to return to her home to retrieve her belongings.

Bacteria can can easily contaminate the food left out.
These living conditions could could contaminate the lake.

 
 

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