Vocabulary Practice
Most deserts have hot, dry
______.
A. swallows
C. eerie
B. climate
D. lumbering
climate – noun – the average weather
conditions of a place or region
through the year
We heard an owl’s ____
hooting as we walked home
in the dark.
A. silken
C. climate
B. swallows
D. eerie
eerie – adjective – strange in a scary
way
Put a ________ hippo in the water
and it becomes a graceful
swimmer.
A. climate
C. lumbering
B. eerie
D. lurk
lumbering – adjective – moving in a
slow, clumsy way
Many animals _____ in their
dens to escape the heat of the
day.
A. eerie
C. lurk
B. lumbering
D. shimmer
lurk – verb – to lie hidden
Antonio wrote a poem about
the girl’s long _____ hair.
A. lumbering
C. shimmer
B. lurk
D. silken
silken – adjective – like silk in
appearance
Kathy’s sore throat hurts
every time she ______.
A. shimmer
B. swallows
C. silken
D. climate
swallows – verb – causes food or
other substances to pass from
the mouth to the stomach
The walls of the canyon began
to ______ in the rays of the
setting sun.
A. lurk
C. silken
C. shimmer
D. swallows
Shimmer – verb – to shine with a faint,
wavering light; glimmer
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