words 4th graders need to know
Terms
undefined, object
copy deck
- native
- from here, locally
- desert
- to leave
- telephoto
- a lens on a camera that can take pictures at a great distance
- superhuman
- shows extra strength or power
- unicorn
- an imaginary animal with one horn on the forehead
- stallion
- a male horse
- dishonest
- a person who cheats or lies
- congruent
- two figures equal in size and shape
- corporation
- an organization made up of a group of people who act as one
- bass
- a kind of freshwater fish
- discontinue
- to stop it
- twirl
- to turn or cause to turn rapidly
- bloomers
- long pants gathered at the knee
- paddy
- a flooded field where rice grows
- corduroy
- a cotton cloth with ridges
- garment
- clothes, something you wear
- avocado
- is a tropical fruit that grows on trees
- moped
- a bicycle with a motor
- postscript
- P.S. added at the end of a letter after the signature
- identical
- two things that are exactly the same
- vessel
- a ship
- skull
- the bones of your head
- frailty
- weakness
- nylon
- a manmade material, made form chemicals
- romp
- play
- aquatic
- related to water
- chide
- you scold someone
- nimble
- quick
- smash
- you shatter or break something
- autograph
- when you sign your name
- snare
- to catch
- guppy
- a small. colorful fish
- saxophone
- a musical instrument
- condo
- when a person owns an apartment instead of renting it
- drape
- a covering for a window
- transplant
- when you move something from one place to another
- jazz
- music with strong rhythm and an accented beat that falls in unusual places
- beanstalk
- the stalk on which beans grow
- doe
- a female deer
- corps
- a group of people with special training
- driftwood
- wood that floats on water
- joyous
- when you are happy
- polygon
- a closed figure with three or more straight lines
- artifact
- something, such as a tool, made by human skill
- rascal
- a mean or dishonest person, a mischievious person
- eavesdrop
- when you listen to someone's conversation
- rodeo
- a show with horseback riding and roping
- vain
- someone who is proud.
- cob
- a male swan
- diagonal
- a line that slants
- maintain
- to keep something as it is
- dillydally
- when you wase time
- royalty
- being royal
- takeout
- food prepared that you take home and eat
- sweet
- sugar and honey taste sweet
- prune
- a dried fruit
- artisan
- a craftsperson silled in an industry or trade
- mare
- a female horse
- vandalism
- destruction of valued things
- brotherhood
- fellowship
- dissimilar
- different
- hatchback
- a car with a hatch in the back
- china
- a fine pottery used to make dishes
- octagon
- a figure with eight sides and eight angles
- opera
- a story performed in song and music
- semiprecious
- jewels of less value than real ones
- prune
- when you trim a tree or shrub
- pledge
- you promise it
- popcorn
- a snack made by heating corn kernels
- waterfront
- land along a body of water
- excited
- happy about something
- ewe
- a female sheep
- bore
- an uninteresting person
- diameter
- a straight line through the center of a circle
- dorm
- a sleeping room especially for several people at a school or college
- estimate
- you make a careful guess about quantity
- appoint
- choose
- cardboard
- stiff, heavy paper
- photograph
- a picture taken by a camera
- ram
- a male sheep
- sweltering
- extremely hot
- remarkable
- special
- gobbledygook
- writing or speaking that is long and windy and hard to understand
- beat
- the area of subject that a reporter covers
- polliwog
- a tadpole--a baby frog
- skyscraper
- a very tall building
- pineapple
- a fruit that looks like a pincecone, sweet, yellow
- bolder
- when you feel braver
- photocopier
- a machine that makes copies
- aquanaut
- an underwater explorer
- cheeseburger
- a hamburger with cheese
- nanny
- a female goat
- vanish
- to disappear
- billy
- a male goat
- smog
- fog that is polluted
- pentagon
- a figure that has five sides and five angles
- geometry
- the study of angles, lines and figures
- transcontinental
- across the continent
- haphazard
- marked by lack of plan, order, or direction
- heliport
- a place where helicopters land and take off from
- portable
- something that is easily moved from place to place
- gargantuan
- huge
- metal
- a substance such as iron, copper, silver, lead, or brass.
- funny bone
- the place where a nerve passes your bended elbow
- mettle
- courage
- patio
- an outdooe space used for relaxing near a house
- brunch
- a meal that combines breakfast and lunch
- artistic
- having to do with art or artists
- methodical
- being in the habit of following a method
- triumph
- victory
- tweed
- a woolen cloth made with two or more colors of yarn
- reduce
- to make things smaller
- typo
- a mistake in a printed word, newspaper, book
- disperse
- to give out
- aqueduct
- a pipe or channel that carries water
- jovial
- a jolly person
- enrage
- if you make someone really angry
- caboose
- the last car on a freight train
- infomercial
- a TV program that gives information and also sells a product
- sandwich
- two pieces of bread with a filling between them
- multipurpose
- a tool that has many uses
- semicircle
- half a circle
- buck
- a male deer
- bass
- a low singing voice of a man
- dummy
- mock up, model, how a newspaper page will look
- titantic
- huge or great
- postdate
- to assign a date to that is later than the actual or current date
- appear
- to be made visible
- artist
- someone who paints or is skilled in other fine arts
- boar
- a wild pig
- kinship
- related by blood
- hobnob
- to associate in a friendly manner
- chortle
- to chuckle or laugh
- multicolored
- having many colors
- futon
- a king of mattress
- ravioli
- s small pocket of pasta filled with cheese or meat
- astronaut
- a pilot of a spacecraft, explorer of space
- geography
- the study of Earth's surface
- junkyard
- a place where junk is kept or stored
- landmark
- a building or place kept to mark and event that happened there.
- scamp
- a rascal
- parallel
- lines are always the same distance apart
- preview
- you see in advance
- ski
- a long flat runner worn on the foot to move over ice
- umbrella
- a collapsible covering for protection from rain or sun
- slugabed
- someone who is lazy
- enlarge
- to make things bigger
- laptop
- a small portable computer
- deli
- a store that sells prepared foods
- suburb
- a community outside a large city
- prehistoric
- means 'before recorded history"
- nonfiction
- books about real people and events
- photogenic
- a person that looks good in a photograph
- transport
- somthing that you take from place to place
- Ferris wheel
- a ride at an amusement park, it is a large wheel that turns. Seats hand from the wheel.
- populous
- a place where there is a lot of people, large popluation
- leadership
- someone who is a good leader
- disco
- a nightclub where people dance
- trophy
- a prize, award
- population
- the number of people living in one place
- sunburn
- when your sking gets too much sun
- mayo
- is a sauce that people used on sandwiches and in salads
- probability
- refers to the chances of something happening
- foreign
- from another place
- motel
- a hotel for motorists
- sewer
- someone who sews
- report
- an account prepared in an organized form
- envious
- you want what someone else has
- suite
- a group of rooms that are connected
- monorail
- a train that runs on a single track
- torrent
- a rushing stream of a liquid
- unfurl
- unfold
- boulder
- a large, big rock
- gingerbread
- a kind of cake or cookie made with ginger.
- gas
- gasoline
- corporal
- having to do with the body
- gym
- a place for sports and exercise
- unicycle
- has only one wheel
- desert
- a region of land with little rainfall
- flashy
- something that is colorful and stands out
- thaw
- melts
- yacht
- a boat that is used for pleasure
- automatic
- self propelled
- bamboozle
- when you trick someone
- startle
- you surprise someone
- poppycock
- nonsense
- din
- a loud noise
- geology
- the science of how the Earth was formed
- porter
- someone who carries baggage
- limerick
- a funny five line poem
- profitable
- you make money on it
- scalawag
- a rascal or scamp
- aquamarine
- a blue-green color like water
- autobiography
- when someone writes a story about their life
- ballyhoo
- an uproar about something
- waffle
- a breakfast cake made from batter
- grief
- sorrow
- aquarium
- a tank for fish
- bonkers
- crazy or mad
- glee
- joy, happiness, gladness
- release
- to let go
- panic
- sudden fear
- sleigh
- a kind of sled
- braille
- a system of writing with raised dots for blind people
- calm
- not excited, relaxed
- jeep
- a powerful car with four-wheel drive
- grouse
- a kind of bird
- eerie
- weird, strange
- comport
- the way you behave
- displease
- to cause to feel disapproval, dislike, or annoyance
- jittery
- nervous
- pen
- a female swan
- fret
- you worry
- neighborhood
- an area in a community
- quicksand
- loose sand and water that gives way under weight
- sewer
- a pipe for cayying away waste
- mustang
- a wild horse
- gong
- a metallic disk that makes a deep ringing sound when struck
- judo
- a sport and form of self-defense using the body
- popular
- someone that is well liked
- collect
- to gather
- vet
- a pet doctor
- endager
- putting someone in harm's way
- nonstop
- when traveling you don't stop along the way
- vast
- great, large, enormous