Word Knowledge

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Word Knowledge 5th Grade Unit 1 Lesson 1 Class
President     Line 1 compete competitor comp
etition   Line 2 broke creature driver Fri
day green proud tripped winter
  Line 3 occur pressure painter     Each c
ompetitor was a good writer.   Some kind of crea
ture broke into the green shed.
  The competition will occur on Friday.
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Word Knowledge 5th Grade Unit 1 Lesson 2 The Ma
rble Champ     Line 1 racket disturbance fuss
hubbub   Line 2 whispers marbles muscles
  Line 3 knuckle knee knot     The cheerin
g fans created a racket and a hubbub.
  Playing marbles can strengthen muscles in the h
ands.   When I scraped my knees and knuckles, my
mom made a fuss.
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Word Knowledge 5th Grade Unit 1 Lesson 3 Juggli
ng     Line 1 everyone volleyball homework af
ternoon   Line 2 ten those both truth  
Line 3 small spin most scout     Most s
tudents do their homework in the afternoon.
  Everyone saw both sport scouts at the game yest
erday.   The volleyball spins and then skips acr
oss the net.
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Word Knowledge 5th Grade Unit 1 Lesson 4 The Ab
acus Contest     Line 1 addition subtractio
n multiplication division   Line 2 bounce lou
d round   Line 3 teacher bead breathing  
    The teacher showed the students how to do
subtraction.   The multiplication game is played
with a round bead and a game board.
  The players are breathing hard as they bounce t
he ball.
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Word Knowledge 5th Grade Unit 1 Lesson 5 S.O.R.
Losers     Line 1 loser believe caught th
rough   Line 2 treason leave defeat   Line
3 championship cheer chant
    I believe that I caught you going through th
e fence.   We will defeat your team before you l
eave the school.   At the championship, the stud
ents cheered and chanted so loudly that it was
difficult to hear anything else.
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Word Knowledge 5th Grade Unit 1 Lesson 6 Storks
    Line 1 hurried dawdled neat
messy distant close   Line 2 except
explanation excite   Line 3 kitchen ditch w
atch     She had an explanation for why the kit
chen was so messy.   Except for my cousin Joe, w
ho is very neat, none of my relatives live close
to here.   They hurried after the ball, but they
had to watch it roll into the ditch.
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Word Knowledge 5th Grade Unit 2 Lesson 1 Galile
o     Line 1 observe observatory observation
  Line 2 carriage convex concave constel
lation   Line 3 circle celestial cycle    
  The citizens observed he constellations in th
e sky.   A telescope has concave and convex lens
es.   The moon is a celestial body that circles
Earth.
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Word Knowledge 5th Grade Unit 2 Lesson 2 Telesc
opes     Line 1 eyepiece eyeglasses eyeball
  Line 2 telescope telephone telegraph   Lin
e 3 revolutionize stabilize dramatize
    The secretary took off his eyeglasses when a
nswering the telephone.   The eyepiece was brok
en when the telescope was knocked over.
  In order to dramatize the functions of a telegr
aph machine, the teacher brought in a
typewriter.
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Word Knowledge 5th Grade Unit 2 Lesson 3 The He
avenly Zoo     Line 1 all-round all-star swo
rd-belt   Line 2 smallest fastest biggest  
Line 3 regretted journeyed scared     An al
l-round athlete like Rachel plays volleyball,
basketball, and softball.   The smallest kid in
the class might also be the fastest.
  I dont know about you, but the roller coaster
scared me.
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Word Knowledge 5th Grade Unit 2 Lesson 4 Circle
s, Squares, and Daggers     Line 1 telescope
observation constellations   Line 2 alphabet
photograph pharmacy   Line 3 taxes mixes b
oxes     We saw the constellations through a te
lescope.   The alphabet book used a photograph o
f cake mixes.   Remove the broken boxes from the
pharmacy.  
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Word Knowledge 5th Grade Unit 2 Lesson 5 Voyage
r to the Planets     Line 1 umbrella-shaped
half-billion blue-green   Line 2 smart smarte
r smartest big bigger biggest
  Line 3 black cloud slope     Neptune is
a beautiful blue-green color.
  Jupiter is the biggest planet visited by Voyage
2.   Thick clouds cover the planet Uranus.
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Word Knowledge 5th Grade Unit 2 Lesson 6 A Meet
ing in Space     Line 1 people though frie
nd   Line 2 quick squirm squint   Line 3
transmitter bravado creative growl
frown drive     People expected Heather to s
quirm at the sight of the worm.
  She frowned and squinted at the bright sun.  
The transmitter sends a quick signal.
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Word Knowledge 5th Grade Unit 2 Lesson 7 Stars
    Line 1 distant near ordinary unusual
powerful weak   Line 2 cloud thousands sound
  Line 3 hydrogen gigantic edge     The
Andromeda Galaxy lies in distant space.
  About two thousand stars are visible without a
t   Stars begin to run out of hydrogen fuel.
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Word Knowledge 5th Grade Unit 2 Lesson 8 The Bo
ok That Saved the Earth     Line 1 insignific
ant trifling decipher decode
  Line 2 twentieth chart sandwich wish   Lin
e 3 certainly closely breathlessly slowly
    Pay no attention to the insignificant detail
s.   The twentieth century ended when the new mi
llennium began.   Ive just run a long race, s
he said slowly and breathlessly.
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Word Knowledge 5th Grade Unit 3 Lesson 1 The La
nd I Lost     Line 1 deep shallow
enter exit lead follow
  Line 2 feared season weak sneaky   Line
3 whined wherever when whole
    My little brother whined and followed me whe
rever I went.   I feared this seasons whole cro
p would be ruined by the heat.
  Weak swimmers should stay in the shallow end of
the pool.
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Word Knowledge 5th Grade Unit 3 Lesson 2 In Two
Worlds     Line 1 small little withe
red shrank netted caught
  Line 2 Scammon vast spawned snow
skimmed   Line 3 tool school food     In
the small lagoon, we netted the most fish we had
ever caught.   In Scammon Bay, the vast, snow-co
vered tundra stretches as far as you can see.
  At school, we use special tools in the kitchen
to prepare food.
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Word Knowledge 5th Grade Unit 3 Lesson 4 The We
st Side     Line 1 blue blew to two red
read break brake   Line 2 sprint
splendid stranger scream   Line 3 watch ca
tch scratch     The two girls will sprint acro
ss the playground.   I have a red scratch on my
arm from my fall. I screamed when the stranger
tried to catch my blue balloon.
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Word Knowledge 5th Grade Unit 3 Lesson 5 Chinat
own     Line 1 well-being sister-in-law high
-rise   Line 2 remains wait rain   Line 3
knew knit knight     She cared about the w
ell-being of her sister-in-law.
  Ill wait and see who remains in the high-rise.
  The knight knew the rain would rust his armor
.
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Word Knowledge 5th Grade Unit 3 Lesson 6 The Ni
ght Journey     Line 1 lambent
luminous stony inexorable
  Line 2 short sharp
shutters sheer Line 3 cack
le chicken clucking
thickness     We could see the lambent flickers
of light through the sheer curtains.
  Sharp, short beeps emanated from a car alarm.
  The farmer was greeted with the cackle and cluc
king of the chickens.
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Word Knowledge 5th Grade Unit 3 Lesson 7 Parmel
e     Line 1 gas station firefighter punchin
g bag   Line 2 laugh enough tough   Line 3
narrow fellow grow     The fire engine rac
ed to the gas station.   That tough fellow seems
to think Im his punching bag.
  Ive grown too tall to fit in those pants
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Word Knowledge 5th Grade Unit 4 Lesson 1 Half S
lave and Half Free     Line 1 abolish abolit
ion abolitionist   Line 2 efforts factions
slaves   Line 3 manacled suppressed embattled
confined     Abraham Lincoln hoped to abolish t
he buying and selling of slaves.
  Slave traders often suppressed slaves by keepin
g them manacled and confined.   Fearing a rise i
n the abolition movement, the embattled southern
states began efforts to secede.
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Word Knowledge 5th Grade Unit 4 Lesson 2 Carryi
ng the Running-Aways     Line 1 light pen w
atch   Line 2 overseer stir vendor occur  
Line 3 finally then eventually afterward  
  Eventually the actor stepped into the
light.   Then he began to play the role of the o
verseer.   Afterward the drama critic looked at
her watch and pulled out a pen to begin writing
her review.
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Word Knowledge 5th Grade Unit 4 Lesson 3 So I B
ecame a Soldier     Line 1 capital superior
excellent   Line 2 batteries flurries hobbi
es   Line 3 bombardment government recruitment
    The government did such a capital job of r
ecruitment that more than 20,000 people
enlisted.   Because the enemys gun batteries we
re superior to ours, they did a superior job
holding the fort.   When the bombardment began,
flurries of sparks rained down on us.
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Word Knowledge 5th Grade Unit 4 Lesson 4 Charle
y Skedaddle     Line 1 mane main tale tail pa
le pail   Line 2 assemble reassemble assess
reassess   Line 3 shrieking believing perce
iving receiving       Believing the scary
tale, the man ran shrieking out of the main
house   The soldiers will reassemble so that the
lieutenant can assess their skills.
  Using soapy water from a pail, he washed the ho
rses mane and tail.
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Word Knowledge 5th Grade Unit 4 Lesson 5 The Si
ege of Vicksburg     Line 1 untidy unconscio
us untended   Line 2 chicken jockey lucky
peck   Line 3 wryly wreck write wrong    
If you write on the wrong lines, the paper will
look untidy.   Left untended, the chicken contin
ued to peck through the fence.
  After the wreck, the jockey lay unconscious on
the ground.
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Word Knowledge 5th Grade Unit 4 Lesson 6 Under
Siege     Line 1 moth-eaten half-hearted full
-length   Line 2 tension occupation location
  Line 3 dodge judge pledge     My
full-length coat was moth-eaten.
  The tension becomes unbearable as we try to dod
ge the incoming shells.   The judge made the tai
lor pledge to remain at the same location.
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Word Knowledge 5th Grade Unit 4 Lesson 7 Emanci
pation     Line 1 fulfill fulfillment fulfil
ling   Line 2 nearby around northern upper
  Line 3 jumped shouted dropped whispered
    To fulfill her promise, she shouted a warnin
g to the people on the northern side of the
river.   When Tom jumped successfully to the upp
er ledge, he felt a sense of fulfillment.
  When I whispered to my friend that a moose was
nearby, he dropped his binoculars.
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Word Knowledge 5th Grade Unit 4 Lesson 8 Gettys
burg Address     Line 1 add detract discor
d harmony perish survive
  Line 2 conceived deceived perceived   Line
3 create great proposition
    We were deceived by the appearance of harmon
y.   He perceived that a positive comment would
add to the discussion, while a negative comment
would detract from it.   When she first conceive
d the idea for the invention, Elise hoped to
create something great.
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Word Knowledge 5th Grade Unit 5 Lesson 1 Buffal
o Hunt     Line 1 night knight plains
planes tale tail   Line 2 buffalo sh
eep bison   Line 3 catch dispatch match  
  Last night the knights listened to the
tale.   The Plains Indians depended on the buffa
lo for most of their needs.   The sheriff will d
ispatch the men to catch the robbers.
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Word Knowledge 5th Grade Unit 5 Lesson 2 Old Ye
ller and the Bear     Line 1 scared afrai
d tired exhausted biggest
heavy burdensome   Line 2 wedge drudge
plunge danger   Line 3 sweat bre
ath leather ready scream
breathe cheap     I was exhausted from car
rying that burdensome load of boxes.
  Rita took a deep breath and plunged into the ic
y water of the lake.   The man in the cheap leat
her jacket screamed when he saw the danger.
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Word Knowledge 5th Grade Unit 5 Lesson 3 Death
of the Iron Horse     Line 1 useful usef
ully useless uselessly usable
  Line 2 prophet nephew orphan pamp
hlet   Line 3 boxes axes mixes    
The boxes were stuffed with useless junk.
  The pamphlet was full of useful information.  
I bought several boxes of the cake mixes that we
re on sale.
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Word Knowledge 5th Grade Unit 5 Lesson 4 The Co
ming of the Long Knives     Line 1 harm h
elp strength weakness gather
disperse   Line 2 village courage ca
rriage bandage   Line 3 knives lives
loaves wolves     The strong winds dispe
rsed the clouds that had gathered.
  The mayor of the village was a man of great cou
rage.   The committee worked to improve the live
s of the wolves in the zoo.
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Word Knowledge 5th Grade Unit 5 Lesson 5 Bill P
ickett Rodeo-Ridin Cowboy     Line 1 free-s
pirited full-scale small-time
best-loved   Line 2 trail raise plain
  Line 3 worked performed cheered
bulldogged     Bill Pickett performed in a fu
ll-scale rodeo.   The horses worked their way do
wn the rocky trail.   The crowds cheered as the
free-spirited rodeo star rode into the ring.
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Word Knowledge 5th Grade Unit 5 Lesson 6 McBroo
m the Rainmaker   Line 1 drought flood
common extraordinary shrink
expand   Line 2 drier cozier dimmer
sadder   Line 3 quiet quite wea
ther whether     Objects expand when they a
re warm, and shrink when they are cool.
  Your cottage is drier and cozier than mine.  
Well let the weather decide whether we go to
the park or not.
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Word Knowledge 5th Grade Unit 5 Lesson 7 The Se
arch   Line 1 rest left stick
kind   Line 2 breathing listening b
ringing bumping   Line 3 school bell
post office bank teller
    I rested for the rest of the day.   Listen
ing is an important skill in school.
  When the school bell rang, I ran to the post of
fice to mail my letter.
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Word Knowledge 5th Grade Unit 6 Lesson 1 The St
ory of Jumping Mouse   Line 1 far-off l
ong-term high-ranking   Line 2 mouse m
ice goose geese ox oxen
  Line 3 perilous dangerous marvelous
      Few mice would attempt a dangerous journe
y to the far-off land.   The ten-year-old geese
had marvelous feathers.   Led by a team of oxen,
the wagon train crossed the perilous river.
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Word Knowledge 5th Grade Unit 6 Lesson 2 Sacaga
weas Journey   Line 1 explore explore
rs exploring exploration
  Line 2 cache campfire captain conti
nent   Line 3 tomatoes echoes pianos
solos     Explorers learned many things abou
t our continent.   The exploration party buried
a cache of food near the campfire.
  The captain was exploring when he discovered th
e buffaloes.
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Word Knowledge 5th Grade Unit 6 Lesson 3 Tanya
s Reunion   Line 1 idle lazy ligh
t ignite   Line 2 cities boundaries
ponies   Line 3 quickly gently ha
ppily honestly     He held the match to th
e twigs in order to ignite the fire quickly.
  The ponies couldnt go beyond the boundaries of
the fence.   The grandmother gently rocked the
baby to sleep.
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Word Knowledge 5th Grade Unit 6 Lesson 4 When S
hlemiel Went to Warsaw   Line 1 lazybones
sleepyhead daydream roadside
outskirts   Line 2 possible bundle a
ssemble stumble   Line 3 neighbors w
eight reign     My friend likes to daydrea
m so much that sometimes he is called lazybones
and sleepyhead.   If possible, put all the veg
etables into one bundle.   My neighbors and I li
ve on the outskirts of town.
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Word Knowledge 5th Grade Unit 6 Lesson 5 Alberi
c the Wise   Line 1 sharp dull wisd
om ignorance simple complex
  Line 2 phantom physician sophomore
  Line 3 discontented dissatisfied
displaced     A physician must possess a great
deal of wisdom.   A phantom must have caused the
sharp knife to become dull.   The sophomore was
dissatisfied with his ignorance.
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Word Knowledge 5th Grade Unit 6 Lesson 6 Underg
round to Canada   Line 1 admire admira
tion admirable   Line 2 script splas
hing spread strong   Line 3 right
brought through though
    We stopped to admire the schooner as it spre
ad its sails.   Our admiration faded as the boat
sent water splashing right on our clothes.
  The strong wind brought three huge trees to the
ground.