Name ______Date______

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Mrs. Frisby and the Crow

_____ 1 Treacherous

_____ 2. Prospect

_____ 3. Fierce

_____ 4. Ineffectively

_____ 5. Alarmingly

_____6. Literally

_____7. Captivity

_____8. Abreast

_____9. Dubiously

  1. Uselessly
  2. Side by side and facing the front
  3. Not sure about and outcome or conclusion
  4. Something that can happen in the future
  5. Wild or threatening in appearance
  6. Not safe because of hidden dangers
  7. Filled with a sense of danger
  8. Used to show that a statement is actually true and not exaggerated
  9. Likely to be dishonest, untrustworthy, or morally worrisome in some way
  10. The state of being a prisoner, or a period of time that somebody is held prisoner

Name ______Date______

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Toto

_____1. Ancestors

_____2. Timid

_____3. Snare

_____4. Haughty

_____5. Cunning

_____6. menacing

_____7. Poachers

_____8. Mock

_____9. Enviously

  1. Tricky
  2. Shy; feeling or showing a lack of courage
  3. With jealousy
  4. Pretend; fake
  5. A trap
  6. Somebody who hunts or fishes illegally, usually while trespassing
  7. Somebody from whom somebody else is directly descended, especially somebody more distant than a grandparent
  8. Behaving in a superior, condescending, or arrogant way
  9. A possible source of danger or harm

Name ______Date______

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Sarah, Plain and Tall

_____ 1. Curled

_____2. Pesky

_____3. Shingles

_____4. Troublesome

_____5. Homely

_____6. Feisty

_____7. Heartland

_____8. Energetic

_____9. Shuffling

_____10. Mild mannered

  1. Annoying
  2. Causing problems or difficulties
  3. Gentle in nature
  4. Having energy; spirited
  5. Full of energy
  6. A disease of adults caused by the reactivation of chickenpox viruses in a nerve ganglion
  7. To mix things together carelessly
  8. To bend, twist, or wind something into a curved or spiral shape, or become curved or coiled
  9. Plain or less than pleasing in appearance
  10. A large stone used to form the hearth in a fireplace

Name ______Date______

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Escape

_____1. Racket

_____2. Scythes

_____3. Trough

_____4. Captivity

_____5. Asparagus

_____6. Appetizing

_____7. Perspiration

_____8. Reconsider

_____9. Commotion

  1. Think about again
  2. Noise indicating confusion
  3. Being held and confined
  4. Arousing the desire of food
  5. Noisy disturbance
  6. The process or act of excreting sweat
  7. A long low narrow open container that holds feed or water for animals
  8. Spear-shaped young plant shoots, eaten cooked as a vegetable
  9. An implement with a long handle and a long curved single-edged blade, used to cut grass, crops, or similar plants by swinging the blade horizontally close to the ground

Name ______Date______

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Mae Jamison: Space Scientist

_____1. Astronaut

_____2. Laboratories

_____3. Satellite

_____4. Excelled

_____5. Gravity

_____6. Specialized

_____7. Orbit

_____8. Simulates

_____9. Techniques

  1. Ways of handling something
  2. A person who travels in space
  3. Imitates
  4. Concentrated on one activity or subject
  5. Did better than others
  6. The path that an astronomical object such as a planet, moon, or satellite follows around a larger astronomical object such as the Sun
  7. An object put into orbit around Earth or another planet in order to relay communications signals or transmit scientific data
  8. A place where research and testing is carried out
  9. The attraction due to gravitation that the Earth or another astronomical object exerts on an object on or near its surface

Name ______Date______

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Two Tickets to Freedom

_____1. Consoled

_____2. Fugitive

_____3. Liberty

_____4. Sympathetic

_____5. Agitated

_____6. Asserted

_____7. Predicament

_____8. Abolitionist

_____9. Indignantly

  1. With anger
  2. A person who runs away
  3. Said firmly
  4. Showing kind feeling toward others
  5. A person who wants to end slavery
  6. To provide a source of comfort to somebody who is distressed or disappointed
  7. A difficult, unpleasant, or embarrassing situation from which there is no clear or easy way out
  8. To make somebody feel anxious, nervous, or disturbed
  9. The freedom to think or act without being constrained by necessity or force

Name ______Date______

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Daedalus and Icarus

_____1. Vault

_____2. Comfortable

_____3. Daubed

_____4. Overlapping

_____5. Plunged

_____6. Luxurious

_____7. Delectable

_____8. Hurtled

  1. Moved quickly
  2. Pleasant; easy to live in
  3. Covering part of something
  4. Dived or fell suddenly
  5. a strengthened room or compartment used for the safe storage of valuables, especially one in a bank
  6. to put or spread a semiliquid substance such as mud, paint, or cream, on a surface in a crude, hurried, or irregular way
  7. very comfortable, with high-quality expensive furnishings or fabrics
  8. Absolutely delightful, very pleasing, or very attractive