Thursday, June 24, 2010

Wednesday Homefun

savage: wild, ferocious, untamed.

Visualize…

1. The students acted like savages while taking a field trip.
2. The horse they captured in captivity was a savage animal.
3. The circus presented a lot of savage animals.
4. In our house acting like a savage is taboo.

and Verbalize…
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verdant: green; especially, green from growing plants

Visualize…

1. There are verdant fields around our school.
2.  During our field trip to the botanical garden, we saw verdant patches filled with flowers all around us.
3. The lawn behind my house is verdant.
4. In the Fertile Crescent there were verdant areas. They were so because of the growing plants in the area.

and Verbalize…
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lumbered: moved heavily or clumsily

Visualize…

1. My Dad lumbered all day because of the spasm in his leg.
2. Johnny didn’t sleep for more than 24 hours. He lumbered on his way to school.
3. Wagons lumbered into town during the state fair.

and Verbalize…
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impaled: pierced with something sharp or pointed

Visualize…

1. Dracula used to impale the bad people of the town.
2.  Some tribes in Africa impale their body parts, because of traditions in that area.
3. Housta impaled her ears to put in a pair of beautiful diamond earrings.
4. After he impaled himself in the leg, the muscle became spastic.


and Verbalize…
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stalking: hunting quietly or secretly; to walk in a stiff or proud manner

Visualize…

1. The thief was stalking the bank teller for over a week.
2.  After Peyton made an A in Reading, he stalked out of the room.
3. The savage tiger, with smoldering eyes, was stalking the gazelle around the underbrush.
4.  The boy was stalking his prey near the river.

and Verbalize…
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