Reading+Vocabulary

=Reading Vocabulary=

Frindle
acquainted - made aware; informed assignment - something assigned,especially a piece of work to be done essential - absolutely necessary; very important expanded - made larger; increased in size guaranteed - something that made certain that something would happen as a result procedures - methods of doing things reputation - what people think and say the character of someone or something is worshipped - paid great honer and reverence to

Thunder Rose
branded - marked by burning the skin with a hot iron





constructed - fitted together ; built daintily - with delicate beauty;freshly and prettily

devastation - waste;destruction



lullaby - song for singing to a child pitch - thick, black, sticky substance made from tar or turpentine resourceful - good at thinking of ways to do things theiving - stealing veins - blood vessels that carry blood to the heart from all parts of the body

Island of the Blue Dolphins
gnawed - bitten or worn away headland - narrow ridge of high land jutting out into water; promontory. kelp - any of various large, tough, brown seaweeds. lair - den or resting place of a wild animal. ravine - a long, deep, narrow vally eroded by running water. shellfish - a water animal with a shell Oysters, clams, crabs, clams, and lobsters are shellfish sinew - tendon

Journey to the Center of the Earth
armor- any kind of protective covering. encases- covers completely; encloses. extinct- no longer existing. hideous- very ugly; frightful; horrible. plunged- fell or moved suddenly downward or forward. serpent- snake, especially a big snake.