Week 6 Vocabulary: Captain Arsenio Flashcards
My art teacher is ________ about painting pictures of the ocean.
passionate
passionate
To have a passionate feeling is to have strong emotions.
impulse
An impulse is the desire to do something.
She was learning to control her _____ to talk to her classmates during class.
impulse
distinguished
A distinguished group is known and respected for its
excellence.
A ___ novelist is coming to talk to our
class.
distinguished
eccentric
Someone who is eccentric is odd.
My ___ aunt is known for wearing hats that are decorated with flowers.
eccentric
circumstances
The way an event happened, or the causes of it, are its
circumstances.
Helen explained the ___ in her childhood that led her to the study of bees.
circumstances
evidently
If something happened evidently, it happened for an
obvious reason.
After the car was speeding on icy roads, the driver ___ crashed.
evidently
acceleration
Acceleration is the act of moving faster.
Upon ___, cars would move faster.
acceleration
prototype
A prototype is a rough model created to test something before creating it in its final form.
The ___ of the robot helped the scientists figure out what they still needed to work on.
prototype
contribution
A person who helps to make something has made a
contribution to that work.
My ___ to the meal was a
big green salad.
contribution
conceived
If you thought of the idea to create something, you
conceived it.
The artist conceived of a wand-shaped sculpture.
conceived
infer
To infer is to make an educated guess based on a reader’s own knowledge and experience, plus clues from the text
Based on chocolate smears on your mouth, I can ____ that you ate my chocolate cookie!
infer
