GENRE: FICTION

Chapters

7-10

NEGLECTED PAGE 45

• Meaning: ignored; unnoticed Sentence: My neighbor’s neglected baby played dangerously close to our pool.

REPROACH PAGE 49

• Meaning: criticize; scold• Sentence:

After we reproach our puppy for having an accident in the house, it gives us this sweet, little, sad face.

VIGOROUSLY PAGE 53

• Meaning: energetically; enthusiastically• Sentence:

This ball player plays vigorously and seems to really enjoy what he is doing.

SHRIEK PAGE 53

• Meaning: a squealing

sound; yell Sentence: You should have heard the shriek that came from my sister when we threw the mouse on her.

TRIPOD PAGE 53

• Meaning: a three-legged stand used for holding something• Sentence: I

use a tripod to hold my camera, whenever I need to be in a picture that I happen to be taking.

EXTINCT PAGE 54

• Meaning: vanished; non-existent• Sentence: The

first animal that comes to mind may be a dinosaur, when asked to think of an animal that no longer exists, but the Wooly Mammoth is also extinct.

SURVEYED PAGE 60

• Meaning: inspected; examined; studied Sentence: My dad surveyed the woods, with binoculars, looking for deer.

SULKING PAGE 63

• Meaning: pouting; feeling sorry for yourself

• Sentence: This little girl is sulking, or pouting, because she wasn’t allowed to go to her best friend’s birthday party.

MOPEY PAGE 63

• Meaning: sad• Sentence:

The girl was very mopey because it was a rainy Saturday and she couldn’t go out and play.

CLIMATE PAGE 64

• Meaning: surroundings; average weather conditions in a place

• Sentence: The desert climate is generally hot and dry during the daytime.

STUPOR PAGE 66

• Meaning: trance; daze• Sentence:

After taking her cough syrup this morning, my baby sister wondered around the house in a medicated stupor.

CURATOR PAGE 66

• Meaning: keeper; overseer; caretaker of a museum or exhibit• Sentence: The

curator of the Museum of Natural History makes sure that the Wooly Mammoth’s tusks are displayed so everyone can easily see.