We received a great gift today: dictionaries from the Orangetown Rotary Club and Orange & Rockland Utilities!
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In your dictionary, find a word you didn't know. Tell us the word and what it means. Then read your classmates' words and try to use one in a sentence!
valor-bravery,courage,boldness
Word: lousy
Example: Bob was a lousy worker because everyday he came late.
Ariana’s word: valor
Bradly showed valor to swim with the shark.
Ariana’s word: valor
Bradly showed valor to swim with the shark.
Word:zoology
the science of animals
word:limber
flexible, elastic, easy to bend
piquant 1) pleasantly tart-tasting, spicy.
2)provocative
word: megaphone
a cone or electric device that amplifies the sound of a voice
Limber – My friend Sydney is very limber when she does gymnastics.
The gymnast was very limber.
My word is citadel. It is a noun.
It means fortress, like a big castle.
Province part of a country with its own government
Olivia’s word.
I ate piquant salsa with chips.
word: zealous
meaning: enthusiastic, eager, devoted.
Word: resolute
Meaning: adjective, determined, purposeful, earnest.
Sentence: I was resolute in doing my homework well.
Word: avocation
Meaning: noun, A hobby
friends word: zealous
sentence: I am very zealous about dancing.
word: knave
meaning: noun, a jack in a deck of cards
friends word: zealous
sentence: I am zealous to go to grandma’s house this weekend.
word:prologue
meaning: an introduction to a play or a story.
sentence:Santa does the prologue in the Christmas Spectacular.
I read the prologue to my favorite book about gymnastcs before I read the book.
The word: abacus
The meaning; A frame holding parallel rods with beads used for doing arithmetic.
Sentence:The name of one of the province in Canada is Ontario.
summon
To gather,to call forth
the knight had Vailr.
Word: commencement.
Definition: 1) The beginning. 2) The ceremony of graduation.
Noun
Sentence: Bobby was glad that it was close to the commencement of gym period.
Sentence for Carly’s word: I was resolute to win the race.
grid is the word
meaning a lot of lines on a flat space in a electronic
navigate- to direct or mange (ship,aircraft, boat,ect.) on its course.
I help my dad navigate our boat through a channel.
You must be very valor to stand up to a dragon.