1. Vocabulary Level Green Unit 2

2. Capture noun or verb  (noun) The capture of the fish made the fisherman very happy.  (verb)The police captured the bank robber.

3. Coward noun  A coward gets scared easily.  I am a coward about spiders and snakes.

4. Exclaim verb  “Help me, please,” he exclaimed.  If you exclaim, you are speaking in a loud, excited way.

5. Gloomy adjective  It is such a rainy, gloomy day outside.  I felt gloomy after I failed my test.

6. Insist verb  My teacher insisted that we stay quiet during the test.  My friend said, “I insist that you have dinner at my house tonight!”

7. Passage noun  My passage from China to America took 2 days.  There are two passages out of this room— the door and the window.  My teachers asked me to read a passage from the book.

8. Restless adjective  I felt so restless last night that I couldn’t sleep.  The girl was restless before her test.

9. Shallow adjective  I can’t swim. I go in the shallow part of the pool.  That woman is so shallow. She only cares about having fun. She does not care about the problems in the world.

10. Shatter verb  I dropped the glass and it shattered all over the floor.  My dreams of becoming a pilot were shattered when I lost my eyesight.

11. Talent noun  Singers, dancers, actors, artists and musicians have a lot of talent.  My talents include drawing and cooking.

12. Capture coward exclaim  A person who does not have courage and is scared is a _________________.  When I painted the picture of the woman, I tried to _____________ her beauty.  My father ___________ loudly during the football game.

13. Gloomy insist passage  The dark clouds make the day look ___________.  There is a small _____________ through which you can crawl into the cave.  My parents ___________ that I do my homework right after school.

14. Restless shallow shatter talent  The river is so _____________ that we can walk across it.  I have no _________ for singing. People gasp when I sing!  The mirror _____________ into many pieces.  An active person may feel ___________ if he or she must sit for a long time.