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Take 3-Column notes in the vocabulary section of your spiral.
Blocks 3 and 7 Vocabulary Group 12 Take 3-Column notes in the vocabulary section of your spiral.
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Infest Verb Definition- Destroy; To be so many that it causes harm.
Sentence- The ship’s captain warned us not to go into the waters because they were infested with too many sharks.
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Debris 1) Broken remains 2) Rubbish
Noun Debris 1) Broken remains 2) Rubbish After the tornado passed through town, knocking down tree limbs, and power lines, there was debris, or rubbish, and trash, scattered everywhere.
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Exterminate Verb To kill off
When we found termites in the basement, we called the company to come exterminate, or destroy, them before they did major damage.
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Catastrophe Noun A sudden and widespread disaster.
When the bridge collapsed unexpectedly, injuring and killing the people on it, it was an unexpected catastrophe, or disaster.
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corrode Verb To weaken gradually, or to wear away.
Recent studies have indicated that the new ethanol E85 gasoline could corrode, or ruin, certain types of metal, including gas pumps.
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fatality Noun Death resulting from an accident, or disaster.
In the five-car pileup, there were three fatalities, or deaths; all of the other people survived.
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Collide To crash into, or to clash with (collision)
As a result of their colliding opinions on the topic of politics, they agreed not to discuss the subject so they would not argue about it.
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Salvage To save from destruction.
When the office building burned, nothing was able to be salvaged, or saved; everything was destroyed entirely. Superman and Batman failed.
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Breach Noun An opening, a break, or a temporary gap.
It would be a breach of trust to reveal your best friend’s secrets. You would break that trust.
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