240 Vocabulary Words
Kids Need to Know
24 Ready-to-Reproduce Packets
That Make
Vocabulary Building
Fun & Effective
by Linda Ward Beech
Teaching
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Sar(rape
Table of Contents
Using the Book
MLesson 1: synonyms
W Lesson 2: Synonyms
W Lesson 3: Antonyms
WLesson'4: Antonyms
Lesson 5: Compound Words
WM Lesson 6: Homophones
Wesson 7: Homographs
W Lesson 8 Eponyms
WM Lesson 9: Words From Other Gultures
Lesson 10: Clips
MLesson 11: Blends
WM Lesson 12 Collective Nouns
W Lesson 13: Content Words: Geography
Mi Lesson 14s Content Words: Poetry
Mi Lesson 15: Funny Words
WM Lesson 16: Latin Roots ped, rumen, ber
W Lesson 17: Latin Roots ela, dit
W Lesson 1: Greek Ward Parts mech, meter, path
M Lesson 19: Acronyms
M Lesson 20: British English
W Lesson 21: Word Stories
W Lesson 22: Prefixes rao, ir, mal, inter, ab
W Lesson 23: Prefixes bi, com, iL, hydro, mano
WM Lesson 24: Sultixes st, -ation/-on, sm, ent
Word List
W Answerspare.
veto variable receptacle quiver, blunder
rash novice outstanding generally hazardous
A SYNONYM IS A WORD THAT MEANS THE SAME
OR ALMOST THE SAME THING AS ANGTHER WORD,
Variable means *changesbie."
A roceptael
If you qulver, you shake.
A blunder is a mistake
When you are careless, you are rash
A movies isa beginner,
Outstanding means ‘important in some way."
Generally means “usually.*
‘When something is hazardous, itis dangerous.
Ifyou veto something,
‘you say no to it,
‘A. Read the vocabulary word, Find and circle three other words that mean
almost the same thing.
1. quiver tcomble sop shake shiver
2. hazardous hazelnut harmful risky dangerous
S.noviee newcomer exper beginner leamer
4. blunder exor mistake noisy rmisjudgment
5. goneratty commonly usually mostly generous
6 outstanding notable important remarkable, outside
7 rash careful foolhardy reckless careless
8. veto prohibit permit forbid ban
B. Write a vocabulary word for each clue.
1. what the weathers from day to day _
2. good place for trash __
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