100 Words Every Fourth Grader Should Know: Essential Reference from American Heritage Dictionaries with Vocabulary and Definitions - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 0544106113 ISBN 13: 9780544106116

Verlag: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014

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Ideal for students in the upper grades of elementary school, 100 Words Every Fourth Grader Should Know includes one hundred words of varying degrees of difficulty, representing the kind of vocabulary students often encounter in their classes and in their reading. From accommodate to zest, with stops along the way at frank, persuade, and vengeance, the words are invariably intriguing and useful. Each entry includes the word's pronunciation, clear definitions of its various senses, and one or more short example sentences, along with a longer quotation showing how the word is used in a broader context. 

 

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100 Words Every Fourth Grader Should Know

By Editors of the American Herita Dictionaries

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

Copyright © 2014 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
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ISBN: 978-0-544-10611-6

Contents

Title Page, 
Table of Contents, 
Copyright, 
A Note to Teachers and Parents, 
Guide to Parts of Speech, 
Guide to Pronunciation, 
Pronunciation Key, 
100 Words Every 4th Grader Should, 
Know, 
The 100 Words, 

CHAPTER 1

100 Words Every 4th Grader Should Know

accommodate ([TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII.])

verb

1. To have room for someone or something; hold: The auditorium can accommodate 500 people. 2. To do a favor or service for someone: I wanted to pick up the cake the next day, but the baker could not accommodate me.

When the Swan Boat docked and the passengers got off, long lines of people were waiting to get aboard for the next ride. Business was booming. Another boat was being made ready, to accommodate the crowds. Everyone wanted to ride the Swan Boats behind a real live swan playing a trumpet. It was the biggest happening in Boston in a long time.

E. B. White, The Trumpet of the Swan

afterthought ([TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII.])

noun

An idea that occurs to a person after something else has been said or done: They invited us to the birthday party, and as an afterthought, they said that we shouldn't bring a gift.

Sophie cast about for a weapon. The driver had gone off with his musket, but luckily some luggage had been fastened at the rear of the carriage. She seized a bunch of croquet mallets, a bag of billiard balls, and, as an afterthought, the Duchess' embroidery.

— Joan Aiken, Black Hearts in Battersea

allegiance ([TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII.])

noun

Loyalty to a country, a person, or a cause: The knights pledged allegiance to the prince.

All is done in the King's name. But he would not be best pleased to find a real, live King of Narnia coming in upon him. And if your majesty came before him alone and unarmed — well he would not deny his allegiance, but he would pretend to disbelieve you.

— C. S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

aloft ([TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII.])

adverb

High above the ground: The first people to fly went aloft in balloons.

From either side the other two soldiers moved closer. The tall one stepped on the gun Jonathan had left. With a cry, he snatched it up and held it triumphantly aloft.

— Avi, The Fighting Ground

ancestor ([TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII.])

noun

A person who was in your family long ago: Some of my ancestors came to the United States from China.

A long time before this my ancestors had used the cave, why I do not know, and along the walls on each side they had cut figures in the stone. There were figures of pelicans floating in the water and flying, of dolphins, whales, sea elephants, gulls, ravens, dogs, and foxes. Near the opening of the cave they had also cut two deep basins in the stone, which I decided to use for storing water since they held much more than the baskets.

— Scott O'Dell, Island of the Blue Dolphins

anticipation ([TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII.])

noun

1. The act of thinking of something in advance: In anticipation of frost, we brought the plants inside. 2. The act of looking forward to something: Everyone smiled with anticipation when the famous actor came out on the stage.

Rosa waved good-bye and headed for the bus stop. She fiddled in her pocket for the dime so that she would not have to ask for change. When she stepped up to drop her fare in, she was smiling in anticipation of the nice dinner she would make.

— Nikki Giovanni, Rosa

antics (an'tiks)

plural noun

Actions that get attention because they are funny or unusual: The kittens' playful antics made us all laugh.

Everywhere there were shops spilling wares out onto the street; bells and chants of hawkers; actors tumbling in front of small crowds, their costumed dogs barking at the antics; ladies holding their skirts above the churned mud.

— Gary D. Schmidt, Anson's Way

apparel ([TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII.])

noun

Clothing: We bring summer apparel when we visit my grandparents in Florida.

The slender Princess still wore at her throat the crescent moon of silver, and on her finger the ring crafted by the Fair Folk. But now a band of gold circled her brow, and the richness of her apparel made Taran suddenly aware of his travel-stained cloak and muddy boots.

— Lloyd Alexander, The High King

ascend ([TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII.])

verb

To go up or move up: The climbers ascended the mountain. The balloon ascended into the sky.

She led me up some wide stairs. As my eyes got used to the gloom I made out the shapes of the boarded windows, of dark doorways and broad landings. We ascended three stairways, passed three landings. Then the stairs narrowed and we came to a final narrow doorway.

— David Almond, Skellig

We sat beside each other by the fire, silent, watching the jewels change and glow first into white diamonds, then into sapphires, then into rubies. Sometimes Mrs. Baker got up and threw another piece of wood on the fire, and the sparks shattered up into the night darkness and we watched them ascend until they disappeared like the stuff of dreams.

— Gary D. Schmidt, The Wednesday Wars

beckon ([TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII.])

verb

To signal with a movement of the head or hand: The coach beckoned me to come over to the bench.

The woman smiled and then beckoned Lissy to follow her to another room. Lissy followed the woman, and then we followed Lissy, like a parade.

— Grace Lin, Dumpling Days

brink (bringk)

noun

1. The upper edge of a steep place: From the brink of the cliff, you can look straight down. 2. The land bordering a body of water: The ball stopped rolling just at the brink of the puddle. 3. The point when an event is about to occur: He's on the brink of crying.

On they all went, leading their ponies, till they were brought to a good path and so at last to the very brink of the river. It was flowing fast and noisily, as mountain-streams do of a summer evening, when sun has been all day on the snow far up above.

— J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

catastrophe ([TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII.])

noun

An event, such as a flood, earthquake, or plane crash, that causes great suffering and damage: Rescue crews responded quickly to the catastrophe.

Anne climbed the ladder amid breathless silence, gained the ridgepole, balanced herself uprightly on that precarious footing, and started to walk along it, dizzily conscious that she was uncomfortably high up in the world and that walking ridgepoles was not a thing in which your imagination helped you out much. Nevertheless, she managed to take several steps...

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• Verlag: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
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• ISBN 13: 9780544106116
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