READING EXPLORER FOUNDATIONS

VOCABULARY - UNIT 2B
1. experienced (adjective) = having had experience in an activity
or in life in general

2. dishes (noun) = a particular variety or preparation of

food

3. plant (noun) = a living organism of the kind exemplified

by trees, shrubs, herbs, grasses, ferns, and mosses, typically growing in
a permanent site, absorbing water and inorganic substances through
its roots, and synthesizing nutrients in its leaves by photosynthesis
using the green pigment chlorophyll

4. contain (verb) = have or hold (someone or

something) within
5. hungry (adjective) = feeling or displaying the need for
food

6. measure (verb) = ascertain the size, amount, or degree of

(something) by using an instrument or device marked in standard units
or by comparing it with an object of known size

7. painful (adjective) = (of a part of the body) affected with pain

8. recently (adverb) = at a recent time; not long ago