Comprehension C
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- sorrow
- sadness
- clarity
- very clear
- genius
- an extremely intelligent person
- siblings
- your brothers and sisters
- scavenger
- a carnivore that eats the remains of dead animals
- extol
- you praise it
- rogue
- an animal that travels by itself and usually is mean
- unctuous
- oily
- affirm
- agree with it
- convert
- you change it
- reference
- a person who tells a prospective employer what kind of worker and how reliable you are
- fecund
- fertile soil
- dilligent
- a careful person
- devise
- you make it up
- temporary
- not lasting forever, changing
- innuendo
- something said as a hint
- coast to coast railroad
- was completed in 1869
- herbiverous
- an animal that eats only plants
- Houston, Texas
- a large city in the southern US with growth stimulated by a railroad and a canal
- imitation
- a fake or a copy of something
- valid
- necessary
- boar
- a wild pig with large tusks
- fusby
- a fat person
- response
- answer
- fortitude
- courage
- excruciating
- pain that is unbearable
- spoonerism
- made by exchanging the first part of words
- Arabian horse
- a light, fast horse that is bred to produce more intelligent horses
- monthy expenses
- how much you pay out each month for things
- exonerate
- you free someone from blame
- parasite
- an organism that gets its food from a living host
- contend
- argue
- predator
- a carniverous animal that kills
- panache
- a dashing charm
- endangered species
- it is nearly extinct
- emphatically
- say it as though you really mean it
- ignominious
- a disgraceful person
- aesthetic
- has to do with beauty
- title for property
- a paper that proves who owns something
- monthy income
- how much money you make each month
- clue
- a hint that helps you find your way out of a puzzle
- cow
- an herbivorous animal that has several stomachs
- obliterated
- destroyed
- exrovert
- an outgoing person
- niggling
- petty and small details
- encyclopedia
- a reference book that gives you facts about nearly everything
- loquacious
- a talkative person
- lease
- an agreement to pay for an apartment or house for a set period of time
- preceding
- an event that happened before another event
- malapropos
- an inappropriate comment
- eohippus
- was the earliest known relative of the modern horse.
- motive
- a reason for doing something
- dictionary
- reference book that gives facts about words
- millard fillmore
- President who was moderate in his views
- carnivorous
- animals that eat other animals
- opportunity
- chance
- cleaner fish
- fish that eat parasites from larger oceans animals
- roots
- part of a plant that holds the plant and soil in place and helps prevent desertification
- sanction
- you approve something
- maverick
- a person who isn't a part of the group
- penurious
- a stingy person
- organism
- any living thing
- malaise
- feeling of depression
- notorious
- a person who is well-known as a result of doing something bad
- marital status
- tells wheather you are married, single, widowed or divorced
- tolerant trees
- trees that don't need much sunlight to survive
- donkey
- an animal that descended from equus
- proximity
- how close an object is to something
- extraneous
- is an irrelevent commment
- crab
- animal that has a hard shell
- subsequent
- an event that follows another event
- main-idea sentence
- the sentence that tells what the paragraph is about
- fallacious
- an argument full of errors
- appropriate
- a fitting idea
- independent
- an activity you do on your own
- tenacious
- stubborn
- fenestration
- the arrangement of windows in a room
- tantalize
- tease by putting something just out of reach
- hesitate
- pause
- relevant
- information that helpd explain a fact
- redundant
- repetative
- lemming
- a furry ratlike animal that normally lives in the mountains.
- regulation
- a rule
- inflation
- prices keep going up
- statement of ought
- tells what we should do or what ought to happen
- statement of fact
- tells what is or what happens
- ambiguous
- an unclear statement
- replete
- filled
- cautious
- very careful
- tuition
- fee that people pay to attend school
- intolerant trees
- trees that cannot survive in the shade
- currency
- money
- hibernate
- curl up in a safe place and sleep for a long time
- remote
- an area far from cities or towns, few people live there
- ecology
- comes from a Greek word that means house.
- consistent
- things that you expect to happen together
- inconsistant
- things you don't expect to happen together
- audibly
- when you say it loud enough for people to hear you
- uncouth
- vulgar
- nook
- a small place
- conceal
- hiding something
- inquiries
- questions
- malign
- speak badly about a person
- cold war
- when two countries are close to being in a shooting war with each other.
- overpopulated
- too many things are living there
- haze
- to torment a person
- deprecate
- you express disapproval of that person
- robot
- a machine that looks and does somethings like a human
- qualifications
- things you've done that make you good at a job
- somnolent
- sleepy
- lethal
- capable of killing living things
- scrupulous
- a person who pays a lot of attention to details
- miser
- very stingy
- boycott
- when people stop buying from a business or selling to a business
- magnanimous
- a generous person
- paragraphos
- by the side of writing
- atlas
- a reference book that maps and gives facts about places
- indolent
- a lazy person
- catastrophe
- a terrible event that resultsin death and destruction examples are earthquakes, fire and floods
- equus
- modern horse and other similar animals belong to the group
- irrelevant
- information that does not help explain a fact
- clewe
- the middle English word for thread
- braille
- the system of reading and writing that blind people use
- extinct
- no more animal of that type
- decomposers
- plants that do not have chlorophyll
- financial aid
- money to help pay college tuition or living expenses
- data
- facts
- strategy
- a plan
- illusion
- something you see but it doesn't exist
- restrict
- limit to something
- tickbird
- removes parasites form a rhinoceros and signals danger
- leonardo da vinci
- an Italian inventor a painter a musician and a scientist who lived from 1452 to 1519
- plants
- the only living things that manufacture their own food