unit 5

Question 1

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Answer 1

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Question 2

acquaint

Answer 2

v. To acquaint is to get to know something or someone. Nancy acquainted herself with the new computer.

Question 3

cemetery

Answer 3

n. A cemetery is a place where people are buried when they die. Some people are scared of cemeteries.

Question 4

creature

Answer 4

n. A creature is an animal or person. Those creatures live in Africa.

Question 5

curse

Answer 5

v. To curse someone is to hope that bad things happen to that person. The witch cursed the village.

Question 6

disguise

Answer 6

n. A disguise is something you wear so people cannot tell who you are. Everyone knew that it was Dad in the Santa disguise.

Question 7

fancy

Answer 7

adj. A fancy thing is nicer or more detailed than normal. Their table was all set for a fancy dinner.

Question 8

flashlight

Answer 8

n. A flashlight is a small electric light that people carry in their hands. We took a flashlight when we went camping.

Question 9

hood

Answer 9

n. A hood is part of a coat that goes over a person’s head. She put on her hood to keep her head warm.

Question 10

inhabitant

Answer 10

n. An inhabitant is a person who lives in a certain place. The number of inhabitants in the countryside is increasing.

Question 11

nourish

Answer 11

v. To nourish is to give someone or something the food needed to live. A good mother will nourish her baby every day.

Question 12

pirate

Answer 12

n. A pirate is a sailor who steals things from other boats. Pirates are very scary characters.

Question 13

publication

Answer 13

n. A publication is something printed’ like a newspaper or book. She’s been a subscriber to that publication for over ten years.

Question 14

riddle

Answer 14

n. A riddle is a question that is difficult to answer but meant to be funny. I could not answer Wendy’s riddle’ but it made me laugh.

Question 15

rot

Answer 15

v. To rot is to slowly get softer and become destroyed. The old log began to rot in the forest.

Question 16

shortly

Answer 16

adv. An action that happens shortly happens very soon. My workday will end shortly.

Question 17

skeleton

Answer 17

n. A skeleton is all the bones of a body. There is a skeleton in the science classroom.

Question 18

spoil

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v. To spoil is to rot or to make bad. We left the fruit out too long’ and it spoiled.

Question 19

starve

Answer 19

v. To starve is to not get enough food for a long period of time. During the war’ many people starved.

Question 20

thrill

Answer 20

n. A thrill is an exciting feeling. The surfer enjoys the thrill of surfing a big wave.

Question 21

wicked

Answer 21

adj. A wicked person is very bad or evil. My boss is a very wicked man.