Language Arts Classroom Competition

WordMasters: Grade 5 Blue Division Jan-Feb '08


FRIGHTENED : HIGHTAIL :: CAREFREE : ___________________
(a. slog / b. traipse / c. vault / d. scuttle / e. surge)



Be sure you understand the part of speech of a word-whether it's a noun, a verb, or an adjective. (Some words, such as "slur" and "deluge" and "surge" and "ebb" and "crescendo" and "slog" and "bungle" on this list, can be either a noun or a verb depending on how they are used. "Juvenile" can be a noun or an adjective.) Pay attention to the prefixes and suffixes of words, because they are often clues to meaning and part of speech. And try to familiarize yourself with other forms of these words-not just "enticement" but also "entice," not just "vapor" but also "vaporize" and "evaporate," not just "etch" but also "etching," not just "weighty" but also "weightiness," not just "surge" but also "upsurge" and "resurgence," not just "enunciate" but also "enunciation," etc.

  1. vapor
  2. slog
  3. weighty
  4. crescendo
  5. ebb
  6. sporadic
  7. toehold
  8. slur
  9. erratic
  10. deluge
  11. bungle
  12. juvenile
  13. fang
  14. etch
  15. disheveled
  16. lummox
  17. surge
  18. precarious
  19. fiasco
  20. enunciate
  21. pristine
  22. cistern
  23. traipse
  24. immaculate
  25. enticement


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