Word Bank

Word Bank: Words We Talked About

1-14-12

• draft: a copy.
• treacherous: dangerous.
• course: pathway, route.
• investigate: to ask questions to find something out.
• caption: a sentence describing a picture.
• detective: someone who works to find the answer to a mystery.

1-21-12

• memory: something that happened that you remember.
• helium: an element you fill balloons with to make them float.
• realistic: it could happen in real-life; not fantasy.
• immigrant: someone who moves from another country.
• marionettes: puppets held up by string.
• puppeteer: the person who holds and controls the marionettes or puppets.

1-28-12

• genre: a type of book.
• sinister: evil.
• charming: handsome and nice.

2-4-12

• quest: a journey.
• Haiku: a japanese poem that has 3 lines.
• product: what you make in the end.

2-11-12

• detective: someone who tries to solve mysteries.
• witness: someone who sees a crime or an accident happen.
• crime: breaking the law or doing something you are not supposed to do.
• guilty: when someone does something they aren't supposed to do. 

2-18-12

• dialogue: when two people communicate with each other.
• wisdom: having a lot of knowledge.
• caution: to be careful.
• fame: to be well-known; famous.
• courage: bravery.

2-25-12

• UFO: unidentified flying object; an alien's spaceship.
• morph: to change into something else.
• extinct: no longer a living species (example: dinosaurs).