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Miss Alaineus . A Vocabulary Disaster

Miss Alaineus . A Vocabulary Disaster. Genre: Realistic fiction-uses characters, setting, and events that could actually exist. * lumin ous. Giving off light. (From Latin lumen -light). *gigant ic. huge. * categories.

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Miss Alaineus . A Vocabulary Disaster

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  1. Miss Alaineus. A Vocabulary Disaster Genre: Realistic fiction-uses characters, setting, and events that could actually exist.

  2. *luminous • Giving off light. (From Latin lumen-light)

  3. *gigantic • huge

  4. *categories • Groups of things based on a certain characteristic (color, size, shape, etc.) • Food categories Color categories

  5. *strands ( of hair)

  6. *extra credit • Get extra points for doing extra work

  7. *slumped • to drop or slide down suddenly, droop • What are the reasons for a person to slump?

  8. *capable • Able to do a job or a task • This cloud is capable of producing a tornado. • If fish had legs it would be capable of...

  9. *soggy • Heavy with water, saturated with water

  10. definition • Explanation of the meaning of the word

  11. blowing your nose

  12. odd • Strange, unusual • Who is the odd one out? Odd eye color • odd bed

  13. ancestor • Your relatives who lived many years before you • Elephant ancestors

  14. permission slip • A paper signed by your parents which allows you to go on field trips

  15. museum

  16. grin • To smile broadly especially with pleasure or amusement

  17. miscellaneous • Mixed group of objects • Miscellaneous candy Miscellaneous toys

  18. devastated • to reduce to chaos, disorder, or helplessness

  19. ruined • Devastated, broken, destroyed even emotionally

  20. astonishment • overpowering wonder or surprise

  21. mysterious • something not understood or beyond understanding

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